1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
Presented at the Los Angeles Times
BIOGRAPHY
The Nightmare of Reason by Ernst Pawel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
CURRENT INTEREST
Cities and the Wealth of Nations by Jane Jacobs (Random
House)
FICTION
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
(Harper & Row)
HISTORY
The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural
History by Robert Darnton (Basic Books)
MYSTERY/THRILLER
[Award added in 2000]
POETRY
The Maximus Poems by Charles Olson (University of California 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
Christopher Isherwood