2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners Announced

The 42nd annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded on April 23 during a ceremony at the University of Southern California's Bovard Auditorium. 

Luis J. Rodriguez was honored with the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement, and Reginald Dwayne Betts received the Innovator’s Award for his work advocating for literacy in prisons. This year's 12 Book Prize winners are as follows: 

• Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: Jackie Polzin, Brood: A Novel (Doubleday)
• Biography: Paul Auster, Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane (Holt)
• Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose: Deborah Levy, Real Estate: A Living Autobiography (Bloomsbury)
• Current Interest: Adam Schiff, Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could (Random House)
• Fiction: Véronique Tadjo, In the Company of Men (Other Press)
• Graphic Novel/Comics: R. Kikuo Johnson, No One Else (Fantagraphics)
• History: Ada Ferrer, Cuba: An American History (Scribner)
• Mystery/Thriller: Megan Abbott, The Turnout: A Novel (Putnam)
• Poetry: Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets (Graywolf)
• Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction: Zen Cho, Spirits Abroad: Stories (Small Beer Press)
• Science & Technology: Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred (Bold Type)
• Young Adult Literature: Rita Williams-Garcia, A Sitting in St. James (Quill Tree)