Los Angeles Times Festival of Books - Book PrizesLos Angeles Times Festival of Books - Book Prizes April 25 2008
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1982 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners

Presented at the Los Angeles Times

BIOGRAPHY
Waldo Emerson: A Biography by Gay Wilson Allen (Viking)

CURRENT INTEREST
The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell (Alfred A. Knopf)

FICTION
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone (Alfred A. Knopf)

HISTORY
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895-1980 by Jonathan D. Spence (Viking)

MYSTERY/THRILLER
[Award added in 2000]

POETRY
Plutonian Ode and Other Poems, 1977-1980 by Allen Ginsberg (City Lights)

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
Ross Macdonald

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