In addition to the above prizes, Amy Tan received the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. We Need Diverse Books took home the Innovator’s Award, which honors efforts that help bring storytelling into the future, and the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose went to Adam Ross for his book Playworld. Those were all announced prior to the ceremony on Friday.
You can learn more about the L.A. Times Book Prizes on their website.
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