  2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners &  Finalists BIOGRAPHY Winner:  Robert A.  Caro,  Master of the Senate:  The Years of Lyndon Johnson,
 Vol.  3 ( Alfred A.  Knopf)  Finalists:  Gioconda Belli,
 The Country under My Skin:  A Memoir of Love and War ( Alfred A.  Knopf)  Daniel Ellsberg,  Secrets:
 A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers ( Viking)  T. J.  Stiles,  Jesse James:
 Last Rebel of the Civil War ( Alfred A.  Knopf)  Claire Tomalin,  Samuel Pepys:  The Unequalled Self (
Alfred A.  Knopf)  CURRENT INTEREST Winner:  Judith Levine,  Harmful to Minors:  The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex (
University of Minnesota Press)  Finalists:  Timothy Ferris,  Seeing in the Dark:  How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril ( Simon &
 Schuster)  Nicolaus Mills and Kira Brunner ( editors)  The New Killing Fields:  Massacre and the Politics of Intervention ( Basic Books)
 Kevin Phillips,  Wealth and Democracy:  A Political History of the American Rich ( Broadway Books)  Samantha Power,  A Problem from Hell:
 America and the Age of Genocide ( Basic Books)  FICTION Winner:  Ian McEwan,  Atonement:  A Novel (
Nan A.  Talese/ Doubleday)  Finalists:  Peter Cameron,  The City of Your Final Destination (
Farrar,  Straus and Giroux)  Aleksandar Hemon,  Nowhere Man ( Nan A.  Talese/
Doubleday)  Kate Jennings,  Moral Hazard:  A Novel ( Fourth Estate/ HarperCollins)
 Joanna Scott,  Tourmaline:  A Novel ( Little,  Brown and Company)  HISTORY Winner:
 Michael B.  Oren,  Six Days of War:  June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East ( Oxford University Press)  Finalists:
 Philip Dray,  At the Hands of Persons Unknown:  The Lynching of Black America ( Random House)  Robert Harms,  The Diligent:
 A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade ( Basic Books)  Gregg Herken,  Brotherhood of the Bomb:  The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer,  Ernest Lawrence,
 and Edward Teller ( A John Macrae Book/ Henry Holt)  Mary Beth Norton,  In the Devil's Snare:  The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 (
Alfred A.  Knopf)  MYSTERY/ THRILLER Winner:  George P.  Pelecanos,
 Hell to Pay:  A Novel ( Little,  Brown and Company)  Finalists:  Stephen L.
 Carter,  The Emperor of Ocean Park ( Alfred A.  Knopf)  Tod Goldberg,  Living Dead Girl:
 A Novel ( Soho Press)  Henning Mankell,  One Step Behind [ translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg]  (
The New Press)  Scott Turow,  Reversible Errors ( Farrar,  Straus and Giroux)  POETRY Winner:
 Cynthia Zarin,  The Watercourse:  Poems ( Alfred A.  Knopf)  Finalists:
 Terrance Hayes,  Hip Logic ( Penguin Books)  John Koethe,  North Point North:  New and Selected Poems (
HarperCollins Publishers)  J. D.  McClatchy,  Hazmat:  Poems (
Alfred A.  Knopf)  Harryette Mullen,  Sleeping with the Dictionary ( University of California Press)  SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Winner:
 Brenda Maddox,  Rosalind Franklin:  The Dark Lady of DNA ( HarperCollins Publishers)  Finalists:  Deborah Blum,
 Love at Goon Park:  Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection ( Perseus Publishing)  Judith Hooper,  Of Moths and Men:  An Evolutionary Tale,
 the Untold Story of Science and the Peppered Moth ( W. W.  Norton)  Mark Kurlansky,  Salt:
 A World History ( Walker and Company)  Richard Preston,  The Demon in the Freezer:  A True Story ( Random House)
 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Winner:  M. T.  Anderson,  Feed ( Candlewick Press)
 Finalists:  Kate Banks,  Dillon Dillon ( Frances Foster Books/ Farrar,  Straus and Giroux)
 Sarah Dessen,  This Lullaby:  A Novel ( Viking/ Penguin Young Readers Group)  E.
R.  Frank,  America:  A Novel ( A Richard Jackson Book/ Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
 Joyce Carol Oates,  Big Mouth &  Ugly Girl ( HarperTempest/ HarperCollins)  THE ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION Winner:
 Arthur Phillips,  Prague:  A Novel ( Random House)  Finalists:  Jay Basu,
 The Stars Can Wait:  A Novel ( Henry Holt and Company)  Jonathan Safran Foer,  Everything Is Illuminated:  A Novel (
Houghton Mifflin Company)  Nicole Krauss,  Man Walks into a Room ( Nan A.  Talese/ Doubleday)
 Hari Kunzru,  The Impressionist ( Dutton/ Penguin Group ( USA)
