1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner

Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
Frank McCourt
A Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela’s Ashes is Frank McCourt’s masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland. “When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: th…
1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Shortlist

A Life of Picasso: Volume 2. The Cubist Rebel, 1907-1916
John Richardson

An Uncommon Woman: The Empress Frederick
Hannah Pakula

Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography
Gail Levin

Hellman and Hammett: The Legendary Passion of Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett
Joan Mellen

Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu
Simon Callow

Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams
Lyle Leverich
