Last night, we hosted the 39th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes and honored 12 authors for their contributions to the literary world.
by honoring 12 authors, including Corona native Terry Tempest Williams, who received the Robert Kirsch award for lifetime achievement. The festival, which is now in its 25th year, will bring together more than 500 writers, musicians and artists as tens of thousands of attendees descend on USC’s campus.Former U.S. Border Patrol agent Francisco Cantu received the current events prize for “The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border.
Macy spoke about the painful process of researching her work. She dedicated her win to Tess Henry, a woman central to her book who suffered from addiction and was later murdered. Nafissa Thompson-Spires spoke about the importance of diverse characters in literature as she claimed the Art Seidenbaum prize for best fiction debut for her collection of short stories, “Heads of the Colored People.”
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