1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
Presented at the Los Angeles Times
BIOGRAPHY
Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952 by
T.H. Watkins (Henry Holt)
CURRENT INTEREST
Why Americans Hate Politics: The Death of the Democratic
Process by E.J. Dionne, Jr. (Simon & Schuster)
FICTION
White People by Allan Gurganus (Alfred A. Knopf)
HISTORY
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It
Changed America by Nicholas Lemann (Alfred A. Knopf)
MYSTERY/THRILLER
[Award added in 2000]
POETRY
What Work Is by Philip Levine (Alfred A. Knopf)
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
The Truth about Chernobyl by Grigori Medvedev (Basic Books)
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
[Award added in 1998]
THE ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION
Pangs of Love by David Wong Louie (Alfred A. Knopf)
THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD
Ken Kesey