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And the L.A. Times Book Prize winners are...

By Carolyn Kellogg
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The ceremony has just ended at UCLA’s Royce Hall, and the winners of the 2007 L.A. Times Book Prizes are:

Novelist Maxine Hong Kingston won this year’s Robert Kirsch Award, which honors a living author with a connection to the American West whose works have made a substantial contribution to American letters.

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Biography: Simon Sebag Montefiore, ‘Young Stalin’

Current Interest: Elizabeth D. Samet, ‘Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point’

Fiction: Andrew O’Hagan, ‘Be Near Me’

Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: Dinaw Mengestu, ‘The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears’

History: Tim Weiner, ‘Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA’

Mystery/Thriller: Karin Fossum (translated by Charlotte Barslund), ‘The Indian Bride’

Poetry: Stanley Plumly, ‘Old Heart: Poems’

Science & Technology: Douglas Hofstadter, ‘I Am a Strange Loop’

Young Adult Fiction: Philip Reeve, ‘A Darkling Plain (The Hungry City Chronicles)’

-- Carolyn Kellogg

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Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.

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