2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

Laura Hillenbrand

Relates the story of a U.S. airman who survived when his bomber crashed into the sea during World War II, spent forty-seven days adrift in the ocean before being rescued by the Japanese Navy, and was held as a prisoner until the end of the war….

Colonel Roosevelt

Edmund Morris

George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I

Miranda Carter

Hitch-22: A Memoir

Christopher Hitchens

The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography

Selina Hastings