LA Times Book Prize Winners Announced

The winners of the 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced Friday April 29th, during the LA Festival of Books: Biography: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience & Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House) Current interest: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (Norton) Fiction: A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Knopf) Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam) Graphic novel: Duncan the Wonder Dog: Show One by Adam Hines (Adhouse Books) History: The Killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers (Knopf) Mystery/thriller: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (William Morrow) Poetry: Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010 by Maxine Kumin, (Norton) Science and technology: The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness by Oren Harman (Norton) Young adult literature: A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow/HarperCollins)