FICTION/FIRST BOOK
Window Light by Anne Nietzke

MOST PROMISING WRITER
Caroline Fraser — poetry

MAGAZINE WRITING — SILVER
"Escape from Colombia" (Mother Jones Magazine) by Lawrence T. Johnson

MAGAZINE WRITING — GOLD
"Who Can Own What America Knows?" (The Nation) by Anita Schiller and Herbert I. Schiller

RADIO WRITING — SILVER
Miriam Bejerre — KNX News Radio

RADIO WRITING — GOLD
Charles Morgan — KPFK-FM

MOTION PICTURE & DRAMATIC WRITING — SILVER
Station J: An American Epic by Richard France

MOTION PICTURE & DRAMATIC WRITING — GOLD
Missing by Donald Stewart and Costa-Gavras

NEWSPAPER WRITING — SILVER
"An Edge in My Voice" (LA Weekly) by Harlan Ellison

NEWSPAPER WRITING — GOLD
"RIPOFF: The Story of Fraud in California's Garment Industry" (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner) by Merle Linda Wolin

TELEVISION WRITING — SILVER
"Stolen Tears" by Sam Egen

TELEVISION WRITING — GOLD
"Blacklist" by Seth Freeman

OUTSTANDING FIRST BOOK OF FICTION
False Match by Henry Bean

POETRY
The Passages of Joy by Thom Gunn

Young Adult (tie)
Birds of Summer by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Ratha's Creature by Clare Bell

NEWSPAPER WRITING
Phil Kerby — The Los Angeles Times

MAGAZINE WRITING
Jonathan Kirsch — California Magazine

TELEPLAY
Maid in America by Peter Feibleman
Bill Stout — KNXT-TV

RADIO WRITING
Rita Cash - KFWB

DRAMA
Going to See the Elephant by Karen Hensel, Patti Jones, Elana Kent, Sylvia Meredith, Elizabeth Lloyd Shaw, Laura Toffenetti

BODY OF WORK
Christopher Isherwood

PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR
Ward Richie

MOST PROMISING STUDENT WRITER
Short Story, "Mind Your Business" (UCLA) by Gretchen Van Lente

NONFICTION
The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer by Jackson Benson

POETRY
Tuning by David Antin

CHILDREN'S LIT
The Butter Battle Book by Theodor Geisel

BODY OF WORK
Ray Bradbury

NONFICTION
The Color of the Air by John Sanford

POETRY
Taking to Water by Roberta Spear

CHILDREN'S LIT
King Bidgood's in the Bathtub by Audrey Wood

YOUNG ADULT
Top Secret by John Reynolds Gardiner

BODY OF WORK
Norman Corwin

FICTION/SHORT STORIES
Fair August by Laura Kalpabian

FICTION/GENERAL
The Long Walk by George La Fountaine

FIRST BOOK
Monster Seaweeds, The Story of the Giant Kelps by Mary Daegling

POETRY
Sapphics Against Anger by Timothy Steele

CHILDREN'S FICTION
The Girl by Robbie Branscum

CHILDREN'S NONFICTION
Israel by Helen Hinckley Jones

BODY OF WORK
Brian Moore

TRANSLATION
The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata by Suzanne Jill Levine

SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL
Crimes and Misdemeanors by Woody Allen

SCREENPLAY ADAPTATION
Drugstore Cowboy by Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost

FIRST NOVEL
Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher

NONFICTION
The Other Side of Time by Brendan Phibbs, M.D.

POETRY
Evening Wind by Robert Mezey

YOUNG ADULT (tie)
Street Family by Adrienne Jones
The Return by Sonia Levitin

BODY OF WORK
Herbert Gold

JOURNALISM
Barry Siegal —Awarded for his series on Gene Therapy Race (Los Angeles Times)

SCREENPLAY
River's Edge by Neil Jimenez

FICTION/SHORT STORY
A Boy Like Astrid's Mother by Mae Briskin

NONFICTION
Borrowed Time, An AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette

POETRY
Sun by Michael Palmer

CHILDREN'S LIT
Her Own Song by Ellen Howard

YOUNG ADULT
Probably Still Nick Swanson by Virginia Euwer Wolff

BODY OF WORK
Robert Duncan — poet
William Everson — poet

TRANSLATION
The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata by Suzanne Jill Levine

JOURNALISM
"Asian Pacific Sketchbook" (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner) by Shawn Hubler and Lennie LaGuire

DRAMA
Kingfish by Marlene Meyer

SCREENPLAY
Running on Empty by Naomi Foner

FICTION/SHORT STORY
If the River Was Whiskey by T. Coraghessan Boyle

NONFICTION
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip and Jay Wurts

POETRY
Empathy by Mei-Mei Berseenbrugge

CHILDREN'S LIT
The Five-Finger Discount by Barthe De Clements

YOUNG ADULT
The Forty-Third War by Louise Moeri

BODY OF WORK
Wallace Stegner

TRANSLATION
The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata by Suzanne Jill Levine

JOURNALISM
David Shaw (Los Angeles Times)

DRAMA
Teenage Wedding by John Steppling

SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL
Crimes and Misdemeanors by Woody Allen

SCREENPLAY ADAPTATION
Drugstore Cowboy by Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost

NONFICTION
Bravo 20: The Bombing of the American West by Richard Misrach and Myriam Weisang Misrach

POETRY
New Dark Ages by Donald Revell

CHILDREN'S LIT
The Dragon's Robe by Deborah Nourse Lattimore

TRANSLATION
Niels Lyhne by Tina Nunnally

JOURNALISM
Peter Brewton —Awarded for his series on the Savings & Loan scandal (Houston Post)

SCREENPLAY
Reversal of Fortune by Nicholas Kazan

NONFICTION
J. Edgar Hoover, The Man and the Secrets by Curt Gentry

POETRY
Provinces by Czeslaw Milosz

CHILDREN'S LIT
Tree of Cranes by Allen Say

TRANSLATION
Gustave Flaubert, Early Writings by Robert Griffin

JOURNALISM (tie)
"Voices in the Dark" (Texas Monthly) by Joe Holley
"Letters to the War" (LA Weekly) by Michael Ventura

DRAMA
The Kentucky Cycle by Robert Schenkkan

SCREENPLAY
Thelma and Louise by Callie Khouri

NONFICTION
Hole in the Sky by William Kittredge

POETRY
The Man With Night Sweats by Thom Gunn

CHILDREN'S LIT
Is Kissing a Girl Who Smokes Like Licking an Ashtray? by Randy Powell

TRANSLATION
Still Life and Other Stories by Wayne Lammers

JOURNALISM
"The Bride Wore Crimson" (Dallas Life Magazine) by Bryan Woolley

DRAMA
Heroes and Saints by Cherrie Moraga

TELEPLAY
Citizen Cohn by David Franzoni

SCREENPLAY
The Player by Michael Tolkin

NONFICTION
President Kennedy: Profile of Power by Richard Reeves

POETRY
Sesame by Jack Marshall

CHILDREN'S LIT
Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (And What the Neighbors Thought) by Kathleen Krull

TRANSLATION
Poems Performance Pieces Proses Plays Poetics by Pierre Joris and Jerome Rothenberg

BODY OF WORK IN CRITICISM
T.J. Clark

JOURNALISM
"The Mathematics of Discrimination" (Los Angeles Times Magazine) by Margy Rochlin

DRAMA
Lonely Planet by Steven Dietz

TELEPLAY
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader — Murdering Mom by Jane Anderson

SCREENPLAY
Schindler's List by Steven Zaillian

NONFICTION
Toulouse-Lautrec, A Life by Julia Frey

POETRY
The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992 by Jack Gilbert

CHILDREN'S LIT
Coyote by Gerald McDermott

TRANSLATION
Collected Novellas of Arno Schmidt by John E. Woods

BODY OF WORK IN CRITICISM
Manny Farber

JOURNALISM
"Mexico's Poet Rebel" (Vanity Fair) by Ann Louise Bardach

DRAMA
Pot Mom by Justin Tanner

TELEPLAY
State of Emergency by Susan Black and Lance Gentile

SCREENPLAY
The Shawshank Redemption by Frank Darabont

NONFICTION
Drowning in the Sea of Love by Al Young

POETRY
Poems 1923-1941 by Carl Rakosi

CHILDREN'S LIT
The Van Gogh Café by Cynthia Rylant

TRANSLATION
Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom by Red Pine

BODY OF WORK IN CRITICISM
Pauline Kael

JOURNALISM
"Shut Up, Little Man" (SF Weekly) by George Cothran

DRAMA (tie)
Ballad of Yachiyo by Philip Kan Gotanda
Tender is the Night by Simon Levy

TELEPLAY (tie)
Zooman by Charles Fuller
Hiroshima by John Hopkins

SCREENPLAY
Apollo 13 by William Broyles, Jr. and Al Reinert

CREATIVE NONFICTION
Bad Land by Jonathan Raban

RESEARCH NONFICTION
No Matter How Loud I Shout by Edward Humes

POETRY
Cranial Guitar by Bob Kaufman

CHILDREN'S LIT
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret

TRANSLATION
Kangaroo Notebook by Maryellen Toman Mori

JOURNALISM
"The Accident" (The Los Angeles Times Magazine) by J.R. Moehringer

DRAMA
How I Spent My Life's Vacation by Rita Nachtmann

TELEPLAY
Inside by Bima Stagg

SCREENPLAY
Jerry Maguire by Cameron Crowe

CREATIVE NONFICTION
Burning the Days by James Salter

RESEARCH NONFICTION
Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature by Harry Greene

POETRY
The Profile Makers by Linda Bierds

CHILDREN'S LIT
James Printer: A Novel of Rebellion by Paul Samuel Jacobs

TRANSLATION
A Bohemian Youth, trans. by Michael Henry Heim

JOURNALISM
"A Labor of Love for Boys of McFarland" (Los Angeles Times) by Mark Arax

DRAMA
Polaroid Stories by Naomi Iizuka

TELEPLAY
Weapons of Mass Distractions by Larry Gelbart

SCREENPLAY
Boogie Nights by Paul Thomas Anderson

CREATIVE NONFICTION
Red Star Sister by Leslie Brody

RESEARCH NONFICTION
The Contested Plains by Elliott West

POETRY
The Art of the Lathe by B. H. Fairchild

CHILDREN'S LIT
Petty Crimes by Gary Soto

JOURNALISM
"Mr. Maxwell's Baby" (Orange County Register) by Carol Masciola

DRAMA
The Knee Desires the Dirt by Julie Hébert

TELEPLAY
The Informant by Nicholas Meyer

SCREENPLAY
The Opposite of Sex by Don Roos

BODY OF WORK IN CRITICISM
Leslie Fielder

CREATIVE NONFICTION
The Kid (What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Get Pregnant): An Adoption Story by Dan Savage

RESEARCH NONFICTION
The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War by Eileen Welsome

POETRY
Garden of Exile by Aleida Rodriguez

CHILDREN'S LIT
Weslandia by Paul Fleischman

TRANSLATION
The Diary of Nickolay Punin 1904-1953 by Jennifer Green Krupala

JOURNALISM
"A Legal Way Out" (Los Angeles Times) by Berry Siegal

DRAMA
Hillary and Soon-Yi Shop for Ties by Michelle Carter

TELEPLAY
Strange Justice by Jacob Epstein

SCREENPLAY
Three Kings by David O. Russell

CREATIVE NONFICTION
And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner City High School Students by Miles Corwin

RESEARCH NONFICTION
Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975 by A. J. Langguth

POETRY
The Cartographer's Tongue by Susan Rich

CHILDREN'S LIT
Iris and Walter by Elissa Haden Guest

TRANSLATION
Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan by John Felstiner

JOURNALISM
"Blue Like Me" (LA Weekly) by Erin Aubry Kaplan

DRAMA
The Theory of Everything by Prince Gomolvilas

TELEPLAY
Nuremberg by David W. Rintels

SCREENPLAY
Erin Brockovich by Susannah Grant

AWARD OF HONOR
Otis Chandler

FREEDOM TO WRITE
Chris Abani (Nigeria) and Xu Wenli (People’s Republic of China)

SPECIAL HONOREE
Eric Lax

CREATIVE NONFICTION
Many Circles: New and Selected Essays by Albert Goldbarth

RESEARCH NONFICTION
Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission by Hampton Sides

POETRY
The Mercy Seat: Collected and New Poems 1967-2001 by Norman Dubie

CHILDREN'S LIT
The Land by Mildred D. Taylor

TRANSLATION
Antilyrik and Other Poems by Vítezslav Nezval, trans. Jerome Rothenberg and Milos Sovak

JOURNALISM
"Jeanette Kamman's Library for Orphans" (City Pages) by Peter Ritter

DRAMA
Who Loves You, Jimmie Orrio? by Cheryldee Huddleston

TELEPLAY
The Day Reagan Was Shot by Cyrus Nowrasteh

SCREENPLAY
Ghost World by Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff

AWARD OF HONOR
Gloria Steinem

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT FOR LITERATURE
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

FIRST AMENDMENT AWARD
Joyce Meskis

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT FOR SCREENWRITING
Robert Towne

CREATIVE ARTISTS AGENCY FREEDOM TO WRITE AWARD
Anna Politkovskaya (Russia) and the Ethiopian Free Journalists Association

CREATIVE NONFICTION
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg

RESEARCH NONFICTION
Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril by Timothy Ferris

POETRY
Arcady by Donald Revell

CHILDREN'S LIT
Stoner & Spaz by Ron Koertge

TRANSLATION
Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-1950 by Cesare Pavese, trans. by Geoffrey Brock

JOURNALISM
"Enrique's Journey" (Los Angeles Times) by Sonia Nazario

DRAMA
Ted Kaczynski Killed People with Bombs by Michelle Carter

TELEPLAY
10,000 Black Men Named George by Cyrus Nowrasteh

SCREENPLAY
Adaptation by Charlie and Donald Kaufman

AWARD OF HONOR
Gordon Davidson

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Kevin Starr

FIRST AMENDMENT AWARD
Danny Goldberg

THE LOREEN ARBUS SPECIAL FIRST AMENDMENT AWARD
The American Library Association and The Office for Intellectual Freedom

FREEDOM TO WRITE AWARD
Raúl Rivero Castańeda (Cuba) and Sierra Leone PEN Centre

CREATIVE NONFICTION
In the Shadow of Memory by Floyd Skloot

RESEARCH NONFICTION
Lonely Plants by David Grinspoon

POETRY
The Standing Wave by Gabriel Spera

CHILDREN'S LIT
Zipped by Laura and Tom McNeal

TRANSLATION
Island of the Dead by Jean Frémon, trans. by Cole Swenson

JOURNALISM
Places of Darkness by Kira Salak

DRAMA
Body of Faith by Luis Alfaro

TELEPLAY
Out of Ashes by Anne Meredith

SCREENPLAY
Mystic River by Brian Helgeland

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Walter Mosley

FIRST AMENDMENT AWARD
Charles Lewis

AWARD OF HONOR
Jeffrey P. Bezos

CREATIVE NONFICTION
A Meal Observed y Andrew Todhunter

RESEARCH NONFICTION
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War by Evan Wright

POETRY
In A Landscape of Having to Repeat by Martha Ronk

CHILDREN'S LIT
Gifts by Ursula K. Le Guin

TRANSLATION
The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter

JOURNALISM
"Operation Lionheart" (San Francisco Chronicle) by Meredith May

DRAMA
The Clean Room by Sarah Ruhl

TELEPLAY
Iron Jawed Angels by Sally Robinson, Eugenia Bostwick Singer, Raymond Singer, and Jennifer Friedes

SCREENPLAY
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Charlie Kaufman

FREEDOM TO WRITE AWARD
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury (Bangladesh)

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Gore Vidal

FIRST AMENDMENT AWARD
Sam Hamill

COURAGEOUS ADVOCACY AWARD
Bill Moyers

AWARD OF HONOR
HBO

CREATIVE NONFICTION
Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human by Michael Chorost

RESEARCH NONFICTION
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild

POETRY
Here, Bullet by Brian Turner

CHILDREN'S LIT
The Tequila Worm by Viola Canales

TRANSLATION
War Variations by Amelia Rosselli, trans. by Lucia Re and Paul Vangelisti

JOURNALISM
"The Life and Death of Iris Chang" (San Francisco Chronicle) by Heidi Benson

DRAMA
Devil's Advocate by Donald Freed

TELEPLAY
Sucker Free City by Alex Tse

SCREENPLAY
Goodnight and Good Luck by George Clooney and Grant Heslov

FREEDOM TO WRITE AWARD
Iraqi Journalists

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Jane Smiley

FIRST AMENDMENT AWARD
Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams

AWARD OF HONOR
Bob Shaye

CREATIVE NONFICTION
The Horizontal World by Debra Marquart

RESEARCH NONFICTION
The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright

POETRY
Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006 by Ralph Angel

CHILDREN'S LIT
Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata

TRANSLATION
The Carving of Insects by Bian Zhilin, trans. by Mary M. Y. Fung and David Lunde

JOURNALISM
"Highway Run" (Harper's) by Jake Silverstein

DRAMA
Mayakovsky Takes the Stage by Craig Volk

TELEPLAY
Mrs. Harris by Phyllis Nagy

SCREENPLAY
Stranger Than Fiction by Zach Helm

FREEDOM TO WRITE AWARD
Sahal Abdulle

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Clancy Sigal

FIRST AMENDMENT AWARD
Jerry Roberts

SPECIAL SALUTE TO
Linda Deutsch

AWARD OF HONOR
Attorneys for the Defense of the First Amendment: Martin Garbus, Esq.; Laura R. Handman, Esq.; Thomas R. Julin, Esq.; Charles D. Tobin, Esq.

CREATIVE NONFICTION
The Fragile Edge by Julia Whitty

RESEARCH NONFICTION
Poor People by William by T. Vollman

POETRY
187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border by Juan Felipe Herrera

CHILDREN'S LIT
Strays by Ron Koertge

TRANSLATION
A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud, trans. by Donald Revell

JOURNALISM
"The Test of Their Lives" (Los Angeles Magazine) by Jesse Katz

DRAMA
Harm's Way by Shem Bitterman

TELEPLAY
The Sopranos: The Second Coming by Terence Winter

SCREENPLAY
There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson

FREEDOM TO WRITE AWARD
U Win Tin (Myanmar)

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Larry Gelbart

FIRST AMENDMENT AWARD
Writers Guild of America, West

AWARD OF HONOR
TNT and Michael Wright

CREATIVE NONFICTION
The Soloist by Steve Lopez

RESEARCH NONFICTION
Factory Girls by Leslie T. Chang

POETRY
Skeleton of the Crow - New and Selected Poems 1978-2008 by Seido Ray Ronci

CHILDREN'S LIT
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt

TRANSLATION
Selected Poems of Friedrich Holderlin translated by Maxine Chernoff & Paul Hoover

JOURNALISM
"Before and After" by Karen Olsson (Texas Monthly)

DRAMA
Braided Sorrow by Marisela Treviño Orta

TELEPLAY
Breaking Bad: Crazy Handful of Nothin by George Mastras

SCREENPLAY
Milk by Dustin Lance Black

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Elmore Leonard

FIRST AMENDMENT AWARD
Liz Garbus and Sheila Nevins

AWARD OF HONOR
Ben Goldhirsh and GOOD

CREATIVE NONFICTION
This Lovely Life by Vicki Forman

RESEARCH NON-FICTION
Leaving India: My Family's Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents by Minal Hajratwala

POETRY
Multiversal by Amy Catanzano

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
The Dunderheads by Paul Fleischman

TRANSLATION
If I Were Another by Mahmoud Darwish, trans. by Fady Joudah

JOURNALISM
Julius Shulman in 36 Exposures by Mary Melton (Los Angeles Magazine)

DRAMA
Tree by Julie Hebert

TELEPLAY
House: The Tyrant by Peter Blake

SCREENPLAY
Up in the Air by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

GRAPHIC LITERATURE
Matt Fraction, For His Outstanding Body of Work

EXCEPTIONAL FIRST BOOK AWARD
The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession Along the Rio Grande by Angela Garcia

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
James Salter

AWARD OF MERIT
Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver

AWARD OF HONOR and FIRST AMENDMENT AWARD
Hugh M. Hefner

FREEDOM TO WRITE AWARD
Sisay Agena and the Ethiopian Free Journalists Association