Homepage awardsarchive_e47t1f Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Henry David Thoreau: A Life Laura Dassow Walls Amazon 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939 Volker Ullrich Amazon 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi Hayden Herrera Amazon 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Napoleon: A Life Andrew Roberts Amazon 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Bolivar: American Liberator, Marie Arana Amazon 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography The Passage of Power: Volume 4 of The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert A. Caro Amazon 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Attorney for the Damned, John A. Farrell Clarence Darrow Amazon 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption Laura Hillenbrand Amazon 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits Linda Gordon Amazon 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching Paula J. Giddings Amazon 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Young Stalin Simon Sebag Montefiore Amazon 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination Neal Gabler Amazon 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Matisse the Master: Volume 2. The Conquest of Colour: 1909-1954 Hilary Spurling Amazon 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography de Kooning: An American Master Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan Amazon 2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization Neil Smith Amazon 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Master of the Senate: Volume 3 of The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert A. Caro Amazon 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Theodore Rex Edmund Morris Amazon 2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Jefferson Davis, American William J. Cooper Amazon 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette Judith Thurman Amazon 1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Lindbergh A. Scott Berg Amazon 1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Whittaker Chambers: A Biography Sam Tanenhaus Amazon 1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir Frank McCourt Amazon 1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Under My Skin: Volume 1 of My Autobiography, to 1949 Doris May Lessing Amazon 1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Shot in the Heart Mikal Gilmore Amazon 1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer John Mack Faragher Amazon 1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 1. 1884-1933 Blanche Wiesen Cook Amazon 1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952 Tom H. Watkins Amazon 1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt Geoffrey C. Ward Amazon 1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography This Boy’s Life: A Memoir Tobias Wolff Amazon 1988 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom Brenda Maddox Amazon 1987 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Hemingway Kenneth S. Lynn Amazon 1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Alexander Pope: A Life Maynard Mack Amazon 1985 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Solzhenitsyn: A Biography Michael Scammell Amazon 1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka Ernst Pawel Amazon 1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House Seymour Hersh Amazon 1982 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Waldo Emerson Gay Wilson Allen Amazon 1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life…Theodore Roosevelt David McCullough Amazon