LA Times Award Winners

On Friday night the winners of the Los Angeles Times Book Awards were named. They include:

Biography
Robert Caro, The Passage of Power (Knopf)

Current Interest
Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Random House)

Fiction
Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Ecco)

First Fiction
Maggie Shipstead, Seating Arrangements (Knopf)

Mystery/Thriller
Tana French, Broken Harbor (Viking)

Other winners included Sammy Harkham (graphic novel); Fergus Bordewich (history); Louise Gluck (poetry); Florence Willams (science/tech); and A.S. King (YA).