1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

Whittaker Chambers: A Biography

Sam Tanenhaus

Whittaker 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…

Bogart

A.M. Sperber, Eric Lax

Burning the Days: Recollection

James Salter

Napoleon Bonaparte: A Life

Alan Schom

Nazimova: A Biography

Gavin Lambert