On April 24, there will be an awards ceremony to honor the 1997 winners of the Los
Angeles Times Book Prize.
Winners and Finalists
FICTION:
Winner
In the Rogue
Blood, by James Carlos Blake (Avon)
Finalists
Reading in the Dark, by Seamus Deane (Alfred A. Knopf)
The Ordinary Seaman, by Francisco Goldman (Atlantic Monthly/Grove Atlantic)
California's Over, by Louis B. Jones (Pantheon)
The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink (Pantheon)
POETRY:
Winner
Black Zodiac, by Charles Wright
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Finalists
Resurrection Update: Collected Poems, 1975-1997, by James Galvin (Copper Canyon
Press)
An Octave above Thunder: New and Selected Poems, by Carol Muske (Penguin)
Natal Command, by Peter Sacks (University of Chicago Press)
The Four Questions of Melancholy: New and Selected Poems, by Tomaz Salamun (White
Pine Press)
HISTORY:
Winner
A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution, by Orlando Figes (Viking
Penguin)
Finalists
Nazi Germany and the Jews - Volume One: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939, by
Saul Friedlander (Harper Collins)
Sun Dancing: A Vision of Medieval Ireland, by Geoffrey Moorhouse (Harcourt Brace)
Echoes of a Native Land, by Serge Schmemann (Alfred A. Knopf)
Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West, by Peter N. Stearns (New York
University Press)
BIOGRAPHY:
Winner
Whittaker
Chambers: A Biography, by Sam Tanenhaus
(Random House)
Finalists
Nazimova: A Biography, by Gavin Lambert (Alfred. A. Knopf)
Burning the Days: Recollection, by James Salter (Random House)
Napoleon Bonaparte: A Life, by Alan Schom (Harper Collins)
Bogart, by Ann M. Sperber and Eric Lax (Morrow)
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:
Winner
How The Mind Works, by Steven Pinker (W.W. Norton)
Finalists
The Fabric of Reality, by David Deutsch (Allen Lane: The Penguin Press)
Venus Revealed: A New Look below the Clouds of Our Mysterious Twin Planet, by
David H. Grinspoon (Addison-Wesley)
Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague, by Richard Rhodes
(Simon & Schuster)
The Trouble with Testosterone, by Robert M. Sapolsky (Schribner's Reference)
CURRENT INTEREST:
Winner
The
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the
Collision of Two Cultures, by Anne Fadiman (Farrar Straus Giroux)
Finalists
The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture, by Daniel Harris (Hyperion)
Race, Crime, and the Law, by Randall Kennedy (Pantheon)
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster, by Jon Krakauer
(Villard)
Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb, by
Bernard Lefkowitz, (University of California Press)
THE ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION:
Winner
Don't Erase Me, by Carolyn
Ferrell (Houghton Mifflin)
Finalists
A Crime in the Neighborhood, by Suzanne Berne (Algonquin Books)
Round Rock, by Michelle Huneven (Alfred A. Knopf)
A Child out of Alcatraz, by Tara Ison (Faber & Faber)
The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy (Random House)
