LA Times Book PrizeBiography

Given by Los Angeles Times

Andre Navne: Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Engelsk)
182 Works 0 Books
The Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of book prizes annually since 1980. Eligibility for the prizes requires a book to have its first United States publication between January 1 and December 31 vis mere of any given year. This American publication must be in English; however, English does not have to be the original language of the work. Authors may be of any nationality. They should be alive at the time of their book’s qualifying U.S. publication although eligibility is also extended to significant new translations of the work of deceased writers. Books by current employees of the Los Angeles Times, by current employees of Tribune Company or any of its other affiliates, by currently serving judges of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, or by immediate family members of these groups are not eligible. vis mindre
Stages:
Alle, Winner (364), Finalist (1,601)
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Years:
Alle, 2023 (5), 2022 (5), 2021 (5), 2020 (5), 2019 (5), 2018 (5), 2017 (5), 2016 (5), 2015 (5), 2014 (5), 2013 (5), 2012 (5), 2011 (5), 2010 (5), 2009 (5), 2008 (5), 2007 (5), 2006 (5), 2005 (5), 2004 (5), 2003 (5), 2002 (5), 2001 (5), 2000 (5), 1999 (5), 1998 (5), 1997 (5), 1996 (8), 1995 (5), 1994 (5), 1993 (5), 1992 (5), 1991 (5), 1990 (5), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (1), 1982 (1), 1981 (1)
Announced:
april 19: Winner2023 Nyeste
februar 21: Finalist2023 Nyeste

Winner 43

VærkÅr
The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts af Gregg Hecimovich2023
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century af Beverly Gage2022
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane af Paul Auster2021
Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck af William Souder2020
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century af George Packer2019
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom af David W. Blight2018
Henry David Thoreau: A Life af Laura Dassow Walls2017
Hitler: Ascent: 1889-1939 af Volker Ullrich2016
Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi af Hayden Herrera2015
Napoleon: A Life af Andrew Roberts2014
Bolivar: American Liberator af Marie Arana2013
The Passage of Power af Robert A. Caro2012
Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned af John A. Farrell2011
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption af Laura Hillenbrand2010
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits af Linda Gordon2009
Ida: A Sword Among Lions af Paula J. Giddings2008
Unge Stalin af Simon Sebag Montefiore2007
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination af Neal Gabler2006
Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour: 1909-1954 af Hilary Spurling2005
de Kooning: An American Master af Mark Stevens2004
American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization af Neil Smith2003
Master of the Senate af Robert A. Caro2002
Theodore Rex af Edmund Morris2001
Jefferson Davis, American af William J. Cooper2000
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette af Judith Thurman1999
Lindbergh af A. Scott Berg1998
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography af Sam Tanenhaus1997
Angelas aske : erindringsroman af Frank McCourt1996
Under huden Erindringer 1. del af Doris Lessing1995
Blodig arv af Mikal Gilmore1994
Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer af John Mack Faragher1993
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1: 1884-1933 af Blanche Wiesen Cook1992
Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952 af T. H. Watkins1991
A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt af Geoffrey C. Ward1990
This Boy's Life af Tobias Wolff1989
Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom af Brenda Maddox1988
Hemingway af Kenneth S. Lynn1987
Alexander Pope: A Life af Maynard Mack1986
Solzhenitsyn: A Biography af Michael Scammell1985
The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka af Ernst Pawel1984
The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House af Seymour M. Hersh1983
Waldo Emerson af Gay Wilson Allen1982
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt af David McCullough1981

Finalist 182

VærkÅr
The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts af Gregg Hecimovich2023
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power af Leah Redmond Chang2023
Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage af Jonny Steinberg2023
Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South af elizabeth varon2023
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence af David Waldstreicher2023
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century af Beverly Gage2022
Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality af Tomiko Brown-Nagin2022
Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century af Jennifer Homans2022
Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe af David Maraniss2022
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice af Robert Samuels2022
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane af Paul Auster2021
Competing with Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait af Nick Davis2021
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler af Rebecca Donner2021
Mike Nichols: A Life af Mark Harris2021
The Reason for the Darkness of the Night af John Tresch2021
Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck af William Souder2020
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath af Heather Clark2020
Warhol af Blake Gopnik2020
Eleanor af David Michaelis2020
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X af Les Payne2020
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century af George Packer2019
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age af Leo Damrosch2019
Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir af Victoria Riskin2019
Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal af Yuval Taylor2019
First: Sandra Day O'Connor af Evan Thomas2019
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom af David W. Blight2018
Reporter: A Memoir af Seymour M. Hersh2018
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic af Victoria Johnson2018
Reagan: An American Journey af Bob Spitz2018
Educated: A Memoir af Tara Westover2018
Henry David Thoreau: A Life af Laura Dassow Walls2017
Grant af Ron Chernow2017
Ali: A Life af Jonathan Eig2017
Richard Nixon: The Life af John A. Farrell2017
Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray af Adam Federman2017
Hitler: Ascent: 1889-1939 af Volker Ullrich2016
Charlotte Bronte: A Life af Claire Harman2016
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies af Ross King2016
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul af James McBride2016
Guilty thing: a life of Thomas De Quincey af Frances Wilson2016
Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi af Hayden Herrera2015
Fortune's Fool (Author Unknown) af Terry Alford2015
Jonas Salk: A Life af Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs2015
Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane af Patrick McGilligan2015
Mary McGrory: The First Queen of Journalism af John Norris2015
Napoleon: A Life af Andrew Roberts2014
Updike af Adam Begley2014
Eugene O'Neill: A Life in Four Acts af Robert M. Dowling2014
Isabella: The Warrior Queen af Kirstin Downey2014
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 af Stephen Kotkin2014
Bolivar: American Liberator af Marie Arana2013
Wilson af A. Scott Berg2013
The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman af Benita Eisler2013
Country Girl af Edna O'Brien2013
American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell af Deborah Solomon2013
The Passage of Power af Robert A. Caro2012
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace af H. W. Brands2012
A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman af Alice Kessler-Harris2012
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy af David Nasaw2012
The One: The Life and Music of James Brown af RJ Smith2012
Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned af John A. Farrell2011
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention af Manning Marable2011
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman af Robert K. Massie2011
Reading My Father: A Memoir af Alexandra Styron2011
My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir af Mark Whitaker2011
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption af Laura Hillenbrand2010
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I af Miranda Carter2010
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography af Selina Hastings2010
Hitch-22 af Christopher Hitchens2010
Colonel Roosevelt af Edmund Morris2010
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits af Linda Gordon2009
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience af Kirstin Downey2009
Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic af Michael Scammell2009
Louis D. Brandeis: A Life af Melvin I. Urofsky2009
The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst af Kenneth Whyte2009
Ida: A Sword Among Lions af Paula J. Giddings2008
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt af H. W. Brands2008
Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent af Ernest Freeberg2008
American Lion af Jon Meacham2008
Chagall: A Biography af Jackie Wullschlager2008
Unge Stalin af Simon Sebag Montefiore2007
Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr af Nancy Isenberg2007
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer af Tim Jeal2007
Boone: A Biography af Robert Morgan2007
Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War af Michael J. Neufeld2007
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination af Neal Gabler2006
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher af Debby Applegate2006
The Librettist of Venice: The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo da Ponte Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and Italian Opera's af Rodney Bolt2006
Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide af Jeffrey Goldberg2006
De mistede : på sporet af seks blandt seks millioner af Daniel Mendelsohn2006
Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour: 1909-1954 af Hilary Spurling2005
Melville: His World and Work af Andrew Delbanco2005
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln af Doris Kearns Goodwin2005
Mencken: The American Iconoclast af Marion Elizabeth Rodgers2005
The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century af Steven Watts2005
de Kooning: An American Master af Mark Stevens2004
Alexander Hamilton af Ron Chernow2004
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare af Stephen Greenblatt2004
John James Audubon: The Making of an American af Richard Rhodes2004
Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt af Michael J. Ybarra2004
American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization af Neil Smith2003
Jung: A Biography af Deirdre Bair2003
Pushkin: A Biography af T. J. Binyon2003
Goya af Robert Hughes2003
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West af Rebecca Solnit2003
Master of the Senate af Robert A. Caro2002
The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War af Gioconda Belli2002
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers af Daniel Ellsberg2002
Jesse James, Last Rebel of the Civil War af T. J. Stiles2002
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self af Claire Tomalin2002
Theodore Rex af Edmund Morris2001
Marie Antoinette : rejsen af Antonia Fraser2001
Seabiscuit: An American Legend af Laura Hillenbrand2001
John Adams af David McCullough2001
Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson af Adam Sisman2001
Jefferson Davis, American af William J. Cooper2000
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin af H. W. Brands2000
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation af Joseph J. Ellis2000
Hitler: 1936-1945: Nemesis af Ian Kershaw2000
Mao: A Life af Philip Short2000
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette af Judith Thurman1999
My Grandfather's House: A Genealogy of Doubt and Faith af Robert Clark1999
Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame af Benita Eisler1999
Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself af Jerome Loving1999
Rembrandt's eyes af Simon Schama1999
Lindbergh af A. Scott Berg1998
Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull af Barbara Goldsmith1998
A Traitor's Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751-1816 af Fintan O'Toole1998
Victor Hugo: A Biography af Graham Robb1998
The Unknown Matisse af Hilary Spurling1998
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography af Sam Tanenhaus1997
Nazimova: A Biography af Gavin Lambert1997
Burning the Days: Recollection af James Salter1997
Napoleon Bonaparte: A Life af Alan Schom1997
Bogart af A.M. Sperber1997
Angelas aske : erindringsroman af Frank McCourt1996
Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu af Simon Callow1996
Tom : the unknown Tennessee Williams af Lyle Leverich1996
Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography af Gail Levin1996
William Morris: A Life for Our Time af Fiona MacCarthy1996
Hellman and Hammett: The Legendary Passion of Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett af Joan Mellen1996
An Uncommon Woman - The Empress Frederick: Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of the Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm af Hannah Pakula1996
A Life of Picasso, Volume 2: 1907-1917 af John Richardson1996
Under huden Erindringer 1. del af Doris Lessing1995
D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage af Brenda Maddox1995
Marie Curie: A Life af Susan Quinn1995
Drinking the Rain: A Memoir af Alix Kates Shulman1995
I Faraos hær af Tobias Wolff1995
Blodig arv af Mikal Gilmore1994
Rodin: The Shape of Genius af Ruth Butler1994
Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge af Gerald Gunther1994
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life af Joan D. Hedrick1994
An Evil Cradling af Brian Keenan1994
Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer af John Mack Faragher1993
Charles Sanders Peirce: A Life af Joseph Brent1993
The Six Wives of Henry VIII af Antonia Fraser1993
Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography af Philip B. Kunhardt1993
Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb af William Lanouette1993
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1: 1884-1933 af Blanche Wiesen Cook1992
A Prophet with Honor : The Billy Graham Story af William Martin1992
Salem Is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne af Edwin Haviland Miller1992
Fascinating Rhythm: The Collaboration of George and Ira Gershwin af Deena Rosenberg1992
Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance af Kenneth Silverman1992
Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952 af T. H. Watkins1991
O'Keeffe and Stieglitz: An American Romance af Benita Eisler1991
Road Song af Natalie Kusz1991
Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor af Willard Sterne Randall1991
A Life of Picasso, Volume 1: 1881-1906 af John Richardson1991
A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt af Geoffrey C. Ward1990
Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography af Deirdre Bair1990
Means of Ascent af Robert A. Caro1990
The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918 af Patricia O'Toole1990
One of us : a biography of Margaret Thatcher af Hugo Young1990
This Boy's Life af Tobias Wolff1989
Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom af Brenda Maddox1988
Hemingway af Kenneth S. Lynn1987
Alexander Pope: A Life af Maynard Mack1986
Solzhenitsyn: A Biography af Michael Scammell1985
The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka af Ernst Pawel1984
The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House af Seymour M. Hersh1983
Waldo Emerson af Gay Wilson Allen1982
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt af David McCullough1981

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The Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of book prizes annually since 1980. Eligibility for the prizes requires a book to have its first United States publication between January 1 and December 31 of any given year. This American publication must be in English; however, English does not have to be the original language of the work. Authors may be of any nationality. They should be alive at the time of their book’s qualifying U.S. publication although eligibility is also extended to significant new translations of the work of deceased writers. Books by current employees of the Los Angeles Times, by current employees of Tribune Company or any of its other affiliates, by currently serving judges of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, or by immediate family members of these groups are not eligible. (English, Member-written)
This year’s Los Angeles Times Book Prizes honored outstanding literary achievement in nine categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction, history, mystery/thriller, poetry, science and technology, and young adult fiction. Each winner receives a $1,000 cash award. (English, Member-written)

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