1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
Presented at the Los Angeles Times
BIOGRAPHY
Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)
CURRENT INTEREST
Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number by Jacobo Timerman
(Alfred A. Knopf)
FICTION
The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas (Viking)
HISTORY
Land of Savagery/Land of Promise by Ray Allen Billington
(W.W. Norton)
MYSTERY/THRILLER
[Award added in 2000]
POETRY
Three Pieces by Ntozake Shange (St. Martin's Press)
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
Wright Morris