LA Times Book PrizeFinalistBiography

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Andere Namen: Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Engels)
182 Werken 182,234 boeken 4,045 Besprekingen 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 toon meer 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. toon minder
Stages:
Alle, Winner (364), Finalist (1,601)
Categorieën:
Alle, Biografie (182)
Jaren:
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)
Aangekondigd:
april 19: Winnaar2023 Recent
februari 21: Finalist2023 Recent

Finalist 182

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

Beschrijvingen

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, Door lid geschreven)
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, Door lid geschreven)

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