Sheri
Fink won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for “Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital,” an investigation of patient deaths at a New
Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Other
winners announced Friday night include:
Fiction:
Ruth Ozeki, “A Tale for the Time Being;”
First
Fiction: “No Violet Bulawayo, We Need New Names;”
Current
Interest: Sheri Fink, “Five Days at Memorial;”
Biography:
“Marie Arana, Bolivar: American Liberator;”
Mystery/Thriller:
J.K. Rowling aka Robert Galbraith, “The Cuckoo's Calling;”
Graphic
Novel/Comics: Ulli Lust,
“Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life;”
History:
Christopher
Clark, “The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914;”
Poetry:
Ron Padgett,
“Ron Padgett: Collected Poems;”
Science and Technology: Alan Weisman,
“Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?” and
Young Adult: Gene Luen Yang, “Boxer.”
Young Adult: Gene Luen Yang, “Boxer.”
