Award-winning Books

Friday night The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for history. Wright’s book recently won the Pulitizer Prize for non-fiction.

NewMexiKen is reading The Looming Tower and finding it quite interesting, important and readable.

Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler won for biography.

Israeli novelist A.B. Yehoshua won the fiction award for A Woman in Jerusalem.

Los Angeles Times Book Prizes