1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
Presented at the Los Angeles Times
BIOGRAPHY
This Boy's Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff (Atlantic Monthly Press)
CURRENT INTEREST
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 by
Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster)
FICTION
The Heart of the Country by Fay Weldon (Viking)
HISTORY
An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood by
Neal Gabler (Crown Books)
MYSTERY/THRILLER
[Award added in 2000]
POETRY
The One Day: A Poem in Three Parts by Donald Hall (Ticknor & Fields/Houghton
Mifflin)
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Peacemaking among Primates by Frans de Waal (Harvard University Press)
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
[Award added in 1998]
THE ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION
[Award added in 1991]
THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD
Karl Shapiro