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Reid's 'No Place Safe' tops list

Rocky Mountain News

Published October 8, 2008 at 8:05 p.m.

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A poignant coming-of-age memoir, set in Atlanta as a serial murderer is targeting young black boys, is among this year's Colorado Book Awards winners.

Boulder author Kim Reid's No Place Safe: A Family Memoir, took top honors in the "creative nonfiction" category. Nine other titles by local authors also were honored Wednesday night.

The Colorado Book awards, by the Colorado Humanities and Center for the Book, were moderated by Channel 2 anchor Natalie Tysdal, at the Tivoli Turnhalle on the Auraria campus of Metropolitan State College.

Winners:

* Anthology/Collection: Home Land: Ranching and a West That Works, by Laura Pritchett, Richard Knight and Jeff Lee (Johnson Books)

* Children: Living Color, by Steve Jenkins (Houghton Mifflin)

* Creative Nonfiction: No Place Safe: A Family Memoir, by Kim Reid (Kensington)

* Fiction: Migration Patterns: Stories, by Gary Schanbacher (Fulcrum)

* History/Biography: The Life and Times of Richard Castro, by Richard Gould (The Colorado Historical Society)

* Nonfiction: Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway, by Kirk Johnson, illustrated by Ray Troll (Fulcrum Publishing)

* Pictorial: Prairie Thunder: The Nature of Colorado's Great Plains, by Dave Showalter (Skyline Press)

* Poetry: Ludlow, by David Mason (Red Hen Press)

* Popular Fiction: The Girl With Braided Hair, by Margaret Coel (Berkley)

* Young Adult Literature: Red Glass, by Laura Resau (Random House)