Book Prizes – Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Los Angeles Times | FESTIVAL OF BOOKS: April 30th - May 1, 2011 USC Campus

Winner:

• Paula J. Giddings, Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching (Amistad/HarperCollins)

Runners Up:

• H.W. Brands, A Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Doubleday)
• Ernest Freeberg, Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent (Harvard University Press)
• Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Random House)
• Jackie Wullschlager, Chagall: A Biography (Alfred A. Knopf)

Winner:

• Barton Gellman, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency (Penguin Press)

Runners Up:

• Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century (The Penguin Press)
• Dexter Filkins, The Forever War (Knopf)
• Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals (Doubleday)
• Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey (Viking)

Winner:

• Marilynne Robinson, Home (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Runners Up:

• Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture (Viking)
• Richard Price, Lush Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Joan Silber, The Size of the World (W. W. Norton)
• Marisa Silver, The God of War (Simon & Schuster)

Winner:

• Zoë Ferraris, Finding Nouf (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Runners Up:

• Uwem Akpan, Say You’re One of Them (Little, Brown and Co.)
• Sadie Jones, The Outcast (HarperCollins)
• Roma Tearne, Mosquito (Europa Editions)
• David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (Ecco)

Winner:

• Mark Mazower, Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe (The Penguin Press)

Runners Up:

• Michael Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Thomas J. Sugrue, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (Random House)
• Rick Wartzman, Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (PublicAffairs)

Winner:

• Michael Koryta, Envy the Night (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Minotaur)

Runners Up:

• Colin Harrison, The Finder (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Simon Lewis, Bad Traffic: An Inspector Jian Novel (Scribner)
• Nina Revoyr, The Age of Dreaming (Akashic Books)
• Tom Rob Smith, Child 44 (Grand Central Publishing)

Winner:

• Frank Bidart, Watching the Spring Festival: Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Runners Up:

• Jorie Graham, Sea Change: Poems (Ecco)
• Marie Howe, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems (W.W. Norton)
• Cole Swensen, Ours (University of California Press)
• Connie Voisine, Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream (University of Chicago Press)

Winner:

• Leonard Susskind, The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics (Little, Brown and Co.)

Runners Up:

• Avery Gilbert, What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life (Crown Publishing)
• Kenneth R. Miller, Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul (Viking)
• Martin J.S. Rudwick, Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform (University of Chicago Press)
• Carl Zimmer, Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life (Pantheon)

Winner:

• Terry Pratchett, Nation (HarperCollins)

Runners Up:

• Candace Fleming, The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary (Schwartz & Wade/Random House Children’s Books)
• Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book (HarperCollins)
• Oscar Hijuelos, Dark Dude (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster)
• Nate Powell, Swallow Me Whole (Top Shelf Productions)

Winner:

• Robert Alter