2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

de Kooning: An American Master

Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan

Traces the career of abstract expressionist Willem De Kooning, discussing his personal life with wife Elaine Fried, and his battle with alcoholism and Alzheimer’s disease….

Alexander Hamilton

Ron Chernow

John James Audubon: The Making of an American

Richard Rhodes

Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt

Michael Ybarra

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Stephen Greenblatt