1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner

Don’t Erase Me: Stories
Carolyn Ferrell
Portrays the lives of Black teenagers in New York’s South Bronx, where, in the title story, a woman recounts her life after learning she has AIDS…
1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Shortlist

A Child Out of Alcatraz
Tara Ison

A Crime in the Neighborhood
Suzanne Berne

Round Rock
Michelle Huneven
