Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography

1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerEleanor Roosevelt: Volume 1. 1884-1933Blanche Wiesen CookThe central volume in the definitive biography of America's most important First Lady. "Engrossing" (Boston Globe). The captivating second volume of this Eleanor Roosevelt biography covers tumultuous era of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the gathe...Amazon1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistA Prophet With Honor: The Billy Graham StoryWilliam MartinAmazonEdgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending RemembranceKenneth SilvermanAmazonFascinating Rhythm: The Collaboration of George and Ira GershwinDeena Ruth RosenbergAmazonSalem Is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel HawthorneEdwin Haviland MillerAmazon

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerDaniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American PioneerJohn Mack FaragherWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for 1993 In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, award-winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays America's famous frontier hero. Drawing from popular na...Amazon1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistCharles Sanders Peirce: A LifeJoseph BrentAmazonGenius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the BombWilliam Lanouette, Bela SilardAmazonLincoln: An Illustrated BiographyPhilip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W. KunhardtAmazonThe Six Wives of Henry VIIIAntonia FraserAmazon

1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerShot in the HeartMikal GilmoreShot in the Heart is the history of an American family inextricably tied up with violence, and the story of how the children of this family committed murder and murdered themselves in payment for a long lineage of ruin....Amazon1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistAn Evil CradlingBrian KeenanAmazonHarriet Beecher Stowe: A LifeJoan D. HedrickAmazonLearned Hand: The Man and the JudgeGerald GuntherAmazonRodin: The Shape of GeniusRuth ButlerAmazon

1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerUnder My Skin: Volume 1 of My Autobiography, to 1949Doris May LessingThe first volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, author of ‘The Grass is Singing’ and ‘The Golden Notebook’, and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Winner of the James Tait Black Prize 1994....Amazon1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistD.H. Lawrence: The Story of a MarriageBrenda MaddoxAmazonDrinking the Rain: A MemoirAlix Kates ShulmanAmazonIn Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost WarTobias WolffAmazonMarie Curie: A LifeSusan QuinnAmazon

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerAngela's Ashes: A MemoirFrank McCourtA Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela’s Ashes is Frank McCourt’s masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland. “When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: th...Amazon1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistA Life of Picasso: Volume 2. The Cubist Rebel, 1907-1916John RichardsonAmazonAn Uncommon Woman: The Empress FrederickHannah PakulaAmazonEdward Hopper: An Intimate BiographyGail LevinAmazonHellman and Hammett: The Legendary Passion of Lillian Hellman and Dashiell HammettJoan MellenAmazonOrson Welles: The Road to XanaduSimon CallowAmazonTom: The Unknown Tennessee WilliamsLyle LeverichAmazon...

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerWhittaker Chambers: A BiographySam TanenhausWhittaker 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...Amazon1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistBogartA.M. Sperber, Eric LaxAmazonBurning the Days: RecollectionJames SalterAmazonNapoleon Bonaparte: A LifeAlan SchomAmazonNazimova: A BiographyGavin LambertAmazon

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerLindberghA. Scott BergLindbergh was the first solo pilot to cross the Atlantic non-stop from New York to Paris, in 1927. This awe-inspiring fight made him the most celebrated men of his day-a romantic symbol of the new aviation age. However, tragedy struck in 1932, where his ba...Amazon1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistA Traitor's Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751-1816Fintan O'TooleAmazonOther Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria WoodhullBarbara GoldsmithAmazonThe Unknown Matisse: Volume 1. The Early Years, 1869-1908Hilary SpurlingAmazonVictor Hugo: A BiographyGraham RobbAmazon