Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerSecrets of the Flesh: A Life of ColetteJudith ThurmanA 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...Amazon1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistByron: Child of Passion, Fool of FameBenita EislerAmazonMy Grandfather's House: A Genealogy of Doubt and FaithRobert ClarkAmazonRembrandt's EyesSimon SchamaAmazonWalt Whitman: The Song of HimselfJerome LovingAmazon

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerAttorney for the Damned, John A. FarrellClarence Darrow...Amazon2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistCatherine the Great: Portrait of a WomanRobert K. MassieAmazonMalcolm X: A Life of ReinventionManning MarableAmazonMy Long Trip Home: A Family MemoirMark WhitakerAmazonReading My Father: A MemoirAlexandra StyronAmazon

2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerThe Passage of Power: Volume 4 of The Years of Lyndon JohnsonRobert A. CaroExamines Lyndon Johnson's volatile relationships with John and Robert Kennedy, describes JFK's assassination from Johnson's viewpoint, and recounts his accomplishments as president before they were overshadowed by the Vietnam War....Amazon2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistA Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian HellmanAlice Kessler-HarrisAmazonThe Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and PeaceH.W. BrandsAmazonThe One: The Life and Music of James BrownR.J. SmithAmazonThe Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. KennedyDavid NasawAmazon

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerBolivar: American Liberator,Marie AranaAn authoritative portrait of the Latin-American warrior-statesman examines his life against a backdrop of the tensions of nineteenth-century South America, covering his achievements as a strategist, abolitionist, and diplomat....Amazon2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistAmerican Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman RockwellDeborah SolomonAmazonCountry Girl: A MemoirEdna O’BrienAmazonThe Red Man’s Bones: George Catlin, Artist and ShowmanBenita EislerAmazonWilsonA. Scott BergAmazon

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerNapoleon: A LifeAndrew RobertsAndrew Roberts’s Napoleon is the first one-volume biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon’s thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation....Amazon2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistEugene O’Neill: A Life in Four ActsRobert M. DowlingAmazonIsabella: The Warrior QueenKirstin DowneyAmazonStalin: Volume 1 – Paradoxes of Power 1878-1928Stephen KotkinAmazonUpdikeAdam BegleyAmazon

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerListening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu NoguchiHayden HerreraThroughout the twentieth century, Isamu Noguchi was a vital figure in modern art. From interlocking wooden sculptures to massive steel monuments to the elegant Akari lamps, Noguchi became a master of what he called the "sculpturing of space." But his const...Amazon2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistFortune’s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes BoothTerry AlfordAmazonJonas Salk: A LifeCharlotte DeCroes JacobsAmazonMary McGrory The First Queen of JournalismJohn NorrisAmazonYoung Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen KanePatrick McGilliganAmazon

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerHitler: Ascent, 1889-1939Volker UllrichSelected as a Book of the Year by the New York Times, Times Literary Supplement and The Times Despite his status as the most despised political figure in history, there have only been four serious biographies of Hitler since the 1930s. Even more surprising...Amazon2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistCharlotte Brontë: A Fiery HeartClaire HarmanAmazonGuilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De QuinceyFrances WilsonAmazonKill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James BrownJames McBrideAmazonMad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water LiliesRoss KingAmazon

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerHenry David Thoreau: A LifeLaura 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...Amazon2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistAli: A LifeJonathan EigAmazonFasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience GrayAdam FedermanAmazonGrantRon ChernowAmazonRichard Nixon: The LifeJohn A. FarrellAmazon

1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerA First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin RooseveltGeoffrey C. WardIn this classic of American biography, based upon thousands of original documents, many never previously published, the prize-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward tells the dramatic story of Franklin Roosevelt’s unlikely rise from cloistered youth to the bri...Amazon1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistMeans of Ascent: Volume 2 of The Years of Lyndon JohnsonRobert A. CaroAmazonSimone de Beauvoir: A BiographyDeirdre BairAmazonThe Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918Patricia O'tooleAmazonThe Iron Lady: A Biography of Margaret ThatcherHugo YoungAmazon