“Running with the Enemy” by Lloyd Lofthouse was awarded an honorable mention in general fiction at the 2013 San Francisco Book Festival.

The winner of the general fiction category went to John Irving’s “In One Person” published by Simon & Schuster. John Irving won the National Book Award in 1980 for “The World According to Garp”, and he received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for the short story “Interior Space.” In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for “The Cider House Rules”

Lloyd Lofthouse is the author of the award winning “My Splendid Concubine” and “Running with the Enemy”.  Lloyd’s short story, A Night at the Well of Purity was named a finalist in the 2007 Chicago Literary Awards. His wife is Anchee Min, the author of “Red Azalea”, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year—in addition to national bestsellers “Becoming Madame Mao” and “Empress Orchid”, which was a finalist for the British Book Awards. Min’s memoir, the sequel to “Red Azalea”—“The Cooked Seed”—will be released May 7, 2013.

The winners of the 2013 San Francisco Book Festival will be honored on May 18, 2013 at a public free festival and a private awards ceremony held at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco.