Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners Announced
Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners Announced An enigmatic story of art and life in Communist Bucharest, a debut novel set in a red-light district in Pakistan, a searing YA story set in Soviet-era Czechoslovakia — as well as reexaminations of J. Edgar Hoover, the Jim Crow era and more — are among the winners of the 43rd annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, awarded Friday evening during a ceremony at the University of Southern California’s Bovard Auditorium. Among the winners were widely known historians and journalists, including Biography winner Beverly Gage, for “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century," which drew on new source material for a fresh new look at the notorious FBI director, and Dahlia Lithwick, whose “Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America,” won the Current Interest Prize. In Mystery/Thriller, Alex Segura — best known as a writer of award-winning comics — won for his retro comic-artist crime novel, "Secret Iden...