![]() ![]() Javier Zamora talks about “Solito,” his harrowing memoir about journeying from El Salvador to the U.S. “When I first started this book I thought, ‘Oh, this’ll be easy, I know comics,’” Segura said, before adding that this was the most intense journalistic endeavor of his life.īooks At 9, Javier Zamora walked 4,000 miles to the U.S. In mystery/thriller, Alex Segura - best known as a writer of award-winning comics - won for his retro comic-artist crime novel, “Secret Identity.” Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century,” which drew on new source material for a fresh look at the notorious FBI director, and Dahlia Lithwick, whose “Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America,” won the current interest prize. ![]() Edgar Hoover, the Jim Crow era and more - are among the winners of the 43rd Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, awarded Friday evening during a ceremony at USC’s Bovard Auditorium.Īmong the winners were widely known historians and journalists, including biography winner Beverly Gage, for “G-Man: J. An enigmatic story of art and life in Communist Bucharest, a debut novel set in a red-light district in Pakistan, a searing young-adult story set in Soviet-era Czechoslovakia - as well as reexaminations of J. ![]()
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