As with many conferences, book signings and literary events, this year’s L.A. Times Book Awards were held virtually. Below is the list of this year’s winners and a link to the live stream of the ceremony.
The 2020 Book Prize winners are as follows:
- Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies (West Virginia University Press)
- Biography: William Souder, Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck (Norton)
- Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose: Andrew O’Hagan, Mayflies (Faber & Faber)
- Current Interest: Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Random House)
- Fiction: David Diop and Anna Moschovakis (translator), At Night All Blood Is Black: A Novel (FSG)
- Graphic Novel/Comics: Bishakh Som, Apsara Engine (Feminist Press)
- History: Martha S. Jones, Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All (Basic Books)
- Mystery/Thriller: S.A. Cosby, Blacktop Wasteland (Flatiron Books)
- Poetry: Victoria Chang, Obit (Copper Canyon Press)
- Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction: Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians (Gallery/Saga Press)
- Science & Technology: Sara Seager, The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir (Crown)
- Young Adult Literature: Ibi Zoboi and Dr. Yusef Salaam, Punching the Air (Balzer + Bray)
