2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
Presented at UCLA’s Royce Hall
Biography
Jefferson Davis, American by William J. Cooper, Jr. (Alfred A. Knopf)
Current Interest
Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald (Simon & Schuster)
Fiction
Assorted Fire Events: Stories by David Means (Context Books)
History
The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan (University of Chicago Press)
Mystery / Thriller
A Place of Execution: A Novel by Val McDermid (St. Martin’s Press/Minotaur)
Poetry
The Throne of Labdacus by Gjertrud Schnackenberg (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Science & Technology
The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine by James Le Fanu, M.D. (Carroll & Graf)
Young Adult Fiction
Miracle’s Boys by Jacqueline Woodson (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers)
The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
The Romantics: A Novel by Pankaj Mishra (Random House)
The Robert Kirsch Award
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
