Book Award News: LA Times Book Prizes

Biography: The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro Current interest: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo Fiction: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain First fiction:...

And the Pulitzer Goes To…

Fiction: The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson Biography: The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss History: Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall...