LA Times Book PrizeFinalistBiography

Given by Los Angeles Times

Otros Nombres: Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Inglés)
182 Obras 182,234 Libros 4,045 Reseñas 4.2
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 mostrar más 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. mostrar menos
Stages:
Todos, Winner (364), Finalist (1,601)
Categorias:
Todos, Biografía (182)
Years:
Todos, 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:
abril 19: Ganador2023 Reciente
Febrero 21: Finalista2023 Reciente

Finalist 182

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

Descripciones

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, Escritos por miembros)
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, Escritos por miembros)

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