1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
Presented at the Los Angeles Times
BIOGRAPHY
Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One 1884-1933 by Blanche Wiesen Cook
(Viking)
CURRENT INTEREST
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
(The Free Press)
FICTION
Maus II, A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by
Art Spiegelman (Pantheon Books)
HISTORY
Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families
under Fascism by Alexander Stille (Summit)
MYSTERY/THRILLER
[Award added in 2000]
POETRY
An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 by Adrienne Rich (W.W.
Norton)
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the
Human Animal by Jared Diamond (HarperCollins)
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
[Award added in 1998]
THE ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION
High Cotton by Darryl Pinckney (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD
Diane Johnson