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