LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZES

This year marks the 15th anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. The nominees in each category are listed below; winners will be announced in late September.

FICTION

WHILE ENGLAND SLEEPS, by David Leavitt (Viking)

REMEMBERING BABYLON, by David Malouf (Pantheon Books)

THE HOLDER OF THE WORLD, by Bharati Mukherjee (Alfred A. Knopf)

THE SOLOIST, by Mark Salzman (Random House)

THE RIFLES, by William T. Vollmann (Viking)

POETRY

THE BLOOD OF THE POET, by William Everson (Broken Moon Press)

THE ANGEL OF HISTORY, by Carolyn Forche , (HarperCollins Publishers)

MATERIALISM, by Jorie Graham (The Ecco Press)

LOST COUNTRY, by Dan Howell (University of Massachusetts Press)

BAG O’ DIAMONDS, by Susan Wheeler (University of Georgia Press)

HISTORY

WOMEN’S WORK: The First 20,000 Years, by Elizabeth Barber (W.W. Norton)

SAME-SEX UNIONS IN PRE-MODERN EUROPE, by John Boswell (Villard Books)

GAY NEW YORK: Gender, Urban Culture and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940, by George Chauncey (Basic Books)

ANTI-SEMITISM IN AMERICA, by Leonard Dinnerstein (Oxford University Press)

BECOMING MEXICAN-AMERICAN: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles 1900-1945, by George J. Sanchez (Oxford University Press)

BIOGRAPHY

RODIN: The Shape of Genius, by Ruth Butler (Yale University Press)

SHOT IN THE HEART, by Mikal Gilmore (Doubleday)

LEARNED HAND: The Man and the Judge, by Gerald Gunther (Alfred A. Knopf)

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE: A Life, by Joan D. Hedrick (Oxford University Press)

AN EVIL CRADLING: The Five-Year Ordeal of a Hostage, by Brian Keenan (Viking)

SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY

UNCOMMON SENSE: The Heretical Nature of Science, by Alan Cromer (Oxford University Press)

SIGNS OF LIFE: Language and the Meaning of DNA, by Robert Pollack (Houghton Mifflin)

WHY ZEBRAS DON’T GET ULCERS: A Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Disease, and Coping, by Robert M. Sapolsky (W.H. Freeman)

THE END OF EVOLUTION: On Mass Extinctions and the Preservation of Biological Diversity, by Peter Douglas Ward (Bantam Books)

THE BEAK OF THE FINCH: A Story of Evolution in Our Time, by Jonathan Weiner (Alfred A. Knopf)

CURRENT INTEREST

ORIGINAL INTENT AND THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION: A Disputed Question, by Harry V. Jaffa (Regnery/Gateway)

DIPLOMACY, by Henry Kissinger (Simon & Schuster)

THE MORNING AFTER: Sex, Fear, and Feminism on Campus, by Katherine Roiphe (Little, Brown)

PARALLEL TIME, by Brent Staples (Pantheon Books)

THE MORAL SENSE, by James Q. Wilson (The Free Press)

ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD (given for a first work of fiction)

THE INDIAN CHRONICLES, by Jose Barreiro (Arte Publico Press/University of Houston)

A PLACE WHERE THE SEA REMEMBERS, by Sandra Benitez (Coffee House Press)

ON LOVE, by Alain de Botton (Atlantic Monthly Press)

IN SEARCH OF BERNABE, by Graciela Limon (Arte Publico Press/University of Houston)

THE YEAR OF THE FROG, by Martin M. Simecka, translated by Peter Petro, foreword by Vaclav Havel (Louisiana State University Press)

THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD (given for a body of work by a writer living in or writing on the American West

The winner of this prize is traditionally announced at the awards ceremony.