Subjects Freshman Year Reading African American Studies African Studies American Studies Anthropology Art, Film, Music and Architecture Asian Studies Business and Economics Criminology Education Environmental Studies Foreign Language Instructional Materials Gender Studies History Irish Studies Jewish Studies Latin American & Caribbean Studies Law and Legal Studies Literature and Drama Literature in Spanish Media Issues, Journalism and Communication Middle East Studies Native American Studies Philosophy Political Science Psychology Reference Religion Russian and Eastern European Studies Science and Mathematics Sociology Study Aids


E-Newsletters: Click here to be notified of new titles in your field
Click here to request Desk/Exam copies
Freshman Year Reading
View Our Award Winners
Click here to view our Catalogs
The Latest News

William Kittredge Wins Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award

book cover

William Kittredge, author of The Willow Field, has been awarded the Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award. The award is presented annually to a living author with a substantial connection to the American West whose contribution to American letters deserves special recognition. Also announced at the same time were the finalists for the 27th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. Random House nominees for the awards are as follows:

Biography:
•The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate
•Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler
•Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide by Jeffrey Goldberg

Current Interest:
• Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Fiction:
•Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
•A Million Nightingales by Susan Straight

History:
•The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright

Science and Technology:
•The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors by Ann Gibbons

Subscribe via RSS XMLNews Archive by Month: