2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner
Henry David Thoreau: A Life
Laura Dassow Walls
“Walden. Yesterday I came here to live.” That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to “live deliberately” in a small woods…
2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Shortlist
Ali: A Life
Jonathan Eig
Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray
Adam Federman
Grant
Ron Chernow
