1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette

Judith Thurman

A scandalously talented stage performer, a practiced seductress of both men and women, and the flamboyant author of some of the greatest works of twentieth-century literature, Colette was our first true superstar. Now, in Judith Thurman’s Secrets of the Fl…

Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame

Benita Eisler

My Grandfather’s House: A Genealogy of Doubt and Faith

Robert Clark

Rembrandt’s Eyes

Simon Schama

Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself

Jerome Loving