1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
Presented at the Los Angeles Times
BIOGRAPHY
Alexander Pope: A Life by Maynard Mack (W.W. Norton)
CURRENT INTEREST
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld
(Times Books)
FICTION
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Houghton
Mifflin)
HISTORY
The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet
Union from Within by Geoffrey Hosking (Harvard University
Press)
MYSTERY/THRILLER
[Award added in 2000]
POETRY
Collected Poems, 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
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
Kay Boyle