1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner

Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
Judith Thurman
A scandalously talented stage performer, a practiced seductress of both men and women, and the flamboyant author of some of the greatest works of twentieth-century literature, Colette was our first true superstar. Now, in Judith Thurman’s Secrets of the Fl…
1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Shortlist

Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame
Benita Eisler

My Grandfather’s House: A Genealogy of Doubt and Faith
Robert Clark

Rembrandt’s Eyes
Simon Schama
