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FOR BIOGRAPHY 1981-2004 |
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FOR BIOGRAPHY 1981-2004 |
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The Los Angeles Times awards several prizes to honor achievement on literature by recognizing writers who have demonstrated outstanding craftsmanship and vision. A writer need not be an American citizen and need not have written originally in English, but the winning book must have been published in English in the United States during the eligible year. Awards are made for works published in the preceding year. The Prizes awarded for Biography are as follows.
| 2004 | Neil Smith | American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization |
| 2003 | Robert A. Caro | Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson. Vol. 3 |
| 2002 | Edmund Morris | Theodore Rex |
| 2001 | William Cooper, Jr. | Jefferson Davis, American |
| 2000 | Judith Thurman | Secrets of the Flesh |
| 1999 | A. Scott Berg | Lindbergh |
| 1998 | Sam Tanenhaus | Whittaker Chambers |
| 1997 | Frank McCourt | Angela's Ashes |
| 1996 | Doris Lessing | Under My Skin |
| 1995 | Mikal Gilmore | Shot in the Heart |
| 1994 | John Mack Faragher | Daniel Boone |
| 1993 | Blanche Wiesen Cook | Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One, 1884-1933 |
| 1992 | T. H. Watkins | Righteous Pilgrim |
| 1991 | Geoffrey C. Ward | A First Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt |
| 1990 | Tobias Wolff | This Boy's Life |
| 1989 | Brenda Maddox | Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom |
| 1988 | Kenneth S. Lynn | Hemingway |
| 1987 | Maynard Mack | Alexander Pope: A Life |
| 1986 | Michael Scammell | Solzhenitsyn |
| 1985 | Ernst Pawel | The Nightmare of Reason |
| 1984 | Seymour Hersh | The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House |
| 1983 | Gay Wilson Allen | Waldo Emerson: A Biography |
| 1982 | David McCullough | Mornings on Horseback |
| 1981 | Ronald Steel | Walter Lippmann and the American Century |
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