2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes

Winners of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, which were announced Friday to launch the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, are: 

Biography: Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned by John A. Farrell (Doubleday)
Current interest: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (FSG)
Fiction: Luminarium by Alex Shakar (SoHo Press)
First fiction: Shards by Ismet Prcic (Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic)
Graphic novel: Finder: Voice by Carla Speed McNeil (Dark Horse)
History: Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard White (Norton)
Mystery/thriller: 11/22/1963 by Stephen King (Scribner)
Poetry: Double Shadow: Poems by Carl Phillips (FSG)
Science and technology: Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius by Sylvia Nasar (S&S)
Young adult literature: The Big Crunch by Pete Hautman (Scholastic)
Lifetime achievement: Rudolfo Anaya
Innovator's award: Figment, co-founded by Jacob Lewis and Dana Goodyear



Shelf Awareness Pro, April 23, 2012