1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner

Whittaker Chambers: A Biography
Sam Tanenhaus
Whittaker Chambers is the first biography of this complex and enigmatic figure. Drawing on dozens of interviews and on materials from forty archives in the United States and abroad–including still-classified KGB dossiers–Tanenhaus traces the remarkable j…
1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Shortlist

Bogart
A.M. Sperber, Eric Lax

Burning the Days: Recollection
James Salter

Napoleon Bonaparte: A Life
Alan Schom
