2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner
![de Kooning: An American Master](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580855376-59603-image-3.jpg)
de Kooning: An American Master
Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
Traces the career of abstract expressionist Willem De Kooning, discussing his personal life with wife Elaine Fried, and his battle with alcoholism and Alzheimer’s disease….
2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Shortlist
![Alexander Hamilton](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580877131-1167-image-3.jpg)
Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow
![John James Audubon: The Making of an American](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581048770-7592-image-3.jpg)
John James Audubon: The Making of an American
Richard Rhodes
![Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580942272-60327-image-3.jpg)
Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt
Michael Ybarra
![Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580844736-58725-image-3.jpg)