The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books recently announced their 34th Annual Book Prizes, for creativity and the written word. Winner in key categories are:
Biography: Marie Arana, Bolivar: American Liberator
Current Interest: Sheri Fink,Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Fiction: Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
First Fiction: NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names
History: Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
Mystery/Thriller: J.K. Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo’s Calling
The Book Report with Elaine Charles 