Winners in three special categories previously announced.
James Ellroy: Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement
The American Library Assn.’s Freedom to Read Foundation: Innovator’s Award
Javier Zamora: Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose.
Ellroy, who will accept the Robert Kirsch Award for bodies of work focused on the American West, is best known for his L.A.-based crime novels such as “L.A. Confidential” and “The Black Dahlia” — both part of his bestselling L.A. Quartet.
Ellroy also has written an investigative memoir, “My Dark Places,” as well as dozens of novels, many of them adapted into films, graphic novels and podcasts.
“We are pleased to recognize L.A. noir iconoclast James Ellroy with this year’s Kirsch Award,” said Times Books Editor Boris Kachka. “James’ writing life was shaped by the tragic, unsolved murder of his mother when he was 10, fostering an obsession with crime and the underworld that has animated his fiction and nonfiction across the decades.”
Of particular interest to readers of this blog:. Congratulations to all.
Mystery/Thriller
Alex Segura, Secret Identity
Also Nominated
Rachel Howzell Hall, We Lie Here: A Thriller
Laurie R. King, Back to the Garden
Tracey Lien, All That’s Left Unsaid
Peng Shepherd, The Cartographers
Biography
Beverly Gage, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
The Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction
Nicola Griffith, Spear
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