Times Announces Book Prizes

Winners of the 1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced in New York today by Times Book Editor Jack Miles. The announcement was made at a private reception for publishers of all nominated books, held at the Regency Hotel.

The winning authors will be honored at a cocktail reception and awards ceremony at The Times on Nov. 3.

The 1989 winners:

FICTION: The Heart of the Country by Fay Weldon (Viking Penguin).

POETRY: The One Day: A Poem in Three Parts by Donald Hal (Ticknor & Fields/Houghton Mifflin).

HISTORY: An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood by Neal Gabler (Crown Publishers).

BIOGRAPHY: This Boy’s Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff (The Atlantic Monthly Press).

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Peacemaking Among Primates by Frans de Waal (Harvard University Press).

CURRENT INTEREST: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster).