1980 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
Presented at the Los Angeles Times
BIOGRAPHY
[Biography award concurrent with this year's History award]
CURRENT INTEREST
Without Fear or Favor by Harrison Salisbury (New York Times Books) [Winner
of the General Award--no Current Interest Award this year]
FICTION
The Second Coming by Walker Percy (Farrar, Straus
and Giroux)
HISTORY
Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald
Steel (Atlantic/ Little Brown)
MYSTERY/THRILLER
[Award added in 2000]
POETRY
Kill the Messenger by Robert Kelly (Black Sparrow)
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
[Award added in 1989]
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
[Award added in 1998]
THE ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION
[Award added in 1991]
THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD
Wallace Stegner