1985 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
Presented at the Los Angeles Times
BIOGRAPHY
Solzhenitsyn by Michael Scammell (W.W. Norton)
CURRENT INTEREST
Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life by
Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler and
Steven M. Tipton (University of California Press)
FICTION
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (Holt, Rinehart and
Winston)
HISTORY
Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn by
Evan S. Connell (North Point Press)
MYSTERY/THRILLER
[Award added in 2000]
POETRY
Cross Ties by X.J. Kennedy (University of Georgia 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
Janet Lewis