2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners

The 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes ceremony honors the best books of 2010, and were awarded Friday, April 29, 2011, in a ceremony at the Los Angeles Times building.

Biography: Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience & Redemption

Current Interest: Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Fiction: Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad

Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: Peter Bognanni, The House of Tomorrow

Graphic Novel: Adam Hines, Duncan the Wonder Dog: Show One

History: Thomas Powers,The Killing of Crazy Horse

Mystery/Thriller: Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

Poetry: Maxine Kumin, Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010

Science & Technology: Oren Harman, The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness

Young Adult Literature: Megan Whalen Turner, A Conspiracy of Kings