By Margaret Wappler
FROM: L.A. Times

Ronan Farrow, Emily Bazelon, Attica Locke, Michael Connelly and Colson Whitehead are among the finalists for the 40th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes announced Wednesday, with crime novelist Walter Mosley named as the winner of the 2019 Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement.

The Los Angeles-based nonprofit WriteGirl will receive the annual Innovator’s Award and author Emily Bernard will be honored with the Christopher Isherwood Prize for autobiographical prose.

Winners will be announced at an evening ceremony in Los Angeles on April 17, the day before the start of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Stories and Ideas on the USC campus.

Farrow’s “Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators” is among the finalists in the current-interest category, which this year highlights books that explore the hot-button issues of the day. Farrow will compete with Bazelon’s “Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration,” “The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California” by Mark Arax, as well as Dina Nayeri’s “The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You” and Rachel Louise Snyder’s “No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us.” Read Rest of Article Here