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[edit] Biography
- 2005: Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse, the Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 by Hilary Spurling, (Knopf)
- 2004: de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (Knopf)
- 2003: American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization by Neil Smith (University of California Press)
- 2002: Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 3 by Robert A. Caro (Knopf)
- 2001: Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris (Random House)
- 2000: Jefferson Davis, American by William J. Cooper, Jr. (Knopf)
- 1999: Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman (Knopf)
- 1998: Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg (Putnam's)
- 1997: Whittaker Chambers: A Biography by Sam Tanenhaus (Random House)
- 1996: Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt (Scribner)
- 1995: Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 by Doris Lessing (HarperCollins)
- 1994: Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore (Doubleday)
- 1993; Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer by John Mack Faragher (Henry Holt)
- 1992: Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One 1884-1993 by Blanche Wiesen Cook (Viking)
- 1991: Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952 by T.H. Watkins (Henry Holt)
- 1990: A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt by Geoffrey C. Ward (Harper & Row)
- 1989: This Boy's Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff (Atlantic Monthly Press)
- 1988: Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom by Brenda Maddox (Houghton Mifflin)
- 1987: Hemingway by Kenneth S. Lynn (Simon & Schuster)
- 1986: Alexander Pope: A Life by Maynard Mack (W.W. Norton)
- 1985: Solzhenitsyn by Michael Scammell (W.W. Norton)
- 1984: The Nightmare of Reason by Ernst Pawel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- 1983: The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour Hersh (Summit Books)
- 1982: Waldo Emerson: A Biography by Gay Wilson Allen (Viking)
- 1981: Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)
- 1980: (Biography award concurrent with this year's History award)
[edit] Current Interest
- 2005: Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War, by Anthony Shadid (Henry Holt)
- 2004: Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War by Evan Wright (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
- 2003: The New Chinese Empire -- And What It Means for the United States by Ross Terrill (Basic Books)
- 2002: Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Judith Levine (University of Minnesota Press)
- 2001: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company)
- 2000: Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald (Simon & Schuster)
- 1999: Sidewalk (with Photographs by Ovie Carter) by Mitchell Duneier (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- 1998: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- 1997: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- 1996: Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War by Peter Maass (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 1995: Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black by Gregory Howard Williams (Dutton)
- 1994: Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger (Simon & Schuster)
- 1993: Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority by Peter Skerry (The Free Press)
- 1992: The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama (The Free Press)
- 1991: Why Americans Hate Politics: The Death of the Democratic Process by E.J. Dionne, Jr. (Simon & Schuster)
- 1990: Disappearing through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century by O.B. Hardison, Jr. (Viking)
- 1989: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster)
- 1988: Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country by William Greider (Simon & Schuster)
- 1987: The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins (W.W. Norton)
- 1986: Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld (Times Books)
- 1985: Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life by Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler and Steven M. Tipton (University of California Press)
- 1984: Cities and the Wealth of Nations by Jane Jacobs (Random House)
- 1983: Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- 1982: The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 1981: Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number by Jacobo Timerman (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 1980: Without Fear or Favor by Harrison Salisbury (New York Times Books) [Winner of the General Award--no Current Interest Award this year]
[edit] Fiction
- 2005: Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez, translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 2004: The Master: A Novel by Colm Tóibín (Scribner)
- 2003: Train: A Novel by Pete Dexter (Doubleday)
- 2002: Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)
- 2001: Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison (Counterpoint)
- 2000: Assorted Fire Events: Stories by David Means (Context Books)
- 1999: Freedom Song: Three Novels by Amit Chaudhuri (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 1998: The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald [Translated from the German by Michael Hulse] (New Directions)
- 1997: In the Rogue Blood by James Carlos Blake (Avon Books)
- 1996: A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 1995: The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 1994: Remembering Babylon by David Malouf (Pantheon Books)
- 1993: Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver (HarperCollins)
- 1992: Maus II, A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman (Pantheon Books)
- 1991: White People by Allan Gurganus (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 1990: Lantern Slides by Edna O'Brien (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- 1989: The Heart of the Country by Fay Weldon (Viking)
- 1988: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Marquez (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 1987: Fools Crow by James Welch (Viking)
- 1986: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Houghton Mifflin)
- 1985: Love Medicine by Louis Erdrich (Holt, Rinehart and Winston)
- 1984: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (Harper & Row)
- 1983: Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (Simon & Schuster)
- 1982: A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 1981: The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas (Viking)
- 1980: The Second Coming by Walker Percy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
[edit] History
- 2005: Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild (Houghton Mifflin)
- 2004: Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism by Geoffrey R. Stone (W.W. Norton & Company)
- 2003: An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America by Henry Wiencek (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- 2002: Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren (Oxford University Press)
- 2001: Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein (Hill and Wang Division, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- 2000: The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan (University of Chicago Press)
- 1999: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (W.W. Norton)
- 1998: The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity by Roy Porter (W.W. Norton)
- 1997: A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution by Orlando Figes (Viking)
- 1996: Black Sea by Neal Ascherson (Hill & Wang)
- 1995: Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America by [Jackson Lears]] (Basic Books)
- 1994: Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey (Basic Books)
- 1993: New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery by Anthony Grafton (Harvard University Press)
- 1992: Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families under Fascism by Alexander Stille (Summit)
- 1991: The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America by Nicholas Lemann (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 1990: The Quest for El Cid by Richard Fletcher (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 1989: An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood by Neal Gabler (Crown Books)
- 1988: Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner (Harper & Row)
- 1987: [No award in 1987]
- 1986: The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within by Geoffrey Hosking (Harvard University Press)
- 1985: Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn by Evan S. Connell (North Point Press)
- 1984: The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton (Basic Books)
- 1983: The Wheels of Commerce by Fernand Braudel (Harper & Row)
- 1982: The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895-1980 by Jonathan D. Spence (Viking)
- 1981: Land of Savagery/Land of Promise by Ray Allen Billington (W.W. Norton)
- 1980: Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel (Atlantic/ Little Brown)
[edit] Mystery/Thriller
- 2005: Legends: A Novel of Dissimulation by Robert Littell (Overlook Press)
- 2004: Tijuana Straits: A Novel by Kem Nunn (Scribner)
- 2003: Soul Circus: A Novel by George P. Pelecanos (Little, Brown)
- 2002: Hell to Pay: A Novel by George P. Pelecanos (Little, Brown and Company)
- 2001: Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker (Hyperion)
- 2000: A Place of Execution: A Novel by Val McDermid (St. Martin's Press/Minotaur)
- 1999: [Award added in 2000]
[edit] Science and Technology
- 2005: Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima by Diana Preston (Walker & Company)
- 2004: The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change by Charles Wohlforth (North Point Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- 2003: Protecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation by Philip J. Hilts (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 2002: Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox (HarperCollins Publishers)
- 2001: The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies by Richard Hamblyn (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- 2000: The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine by James Le Fanu, M.D. (Carroll & Graf)
- 1999: Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel (Walker and Company)
- 1998: Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce by Douglas Starr (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 1997: How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker (W.W. Norton)
- 1996: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan (Random House)
- 1995: Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson (Island Press)
- 1994: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 1993: Fuzzy Logic: The Discovery of a Revolutionary Computer Technology -- and How It Is Changing Our World by Daniel McNeill and Paul Freiberger (Simon & Schuster)
- 1992: The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond (HarperCollins)
- 1991: The Truth about Chernobyl by Grigori Medvedev(Basic Books)
- 1990: Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine by Jane S. Smith (William Morrow)
- 1989: Peacemaking among Primates by Frans de Waal (Harvard University Press)
- 1988: [Award added in 1989]
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Young Adult Fiction
- 2005: You & You & You by Per Nilsson, translated from the Swedish by Tara Chace (Front Street/Boyds Mills Press)
- 2004: Doing It by Melvin Burgess (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers)
- 2003: A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly (Harcourt Children’s Books)
- 2002: Feed by M.T. Anderson (Candlewick Press)
- 2001: The Land by Mildred D. Taylor (Phyllis Fogelman Books, Penguin Putnam)
- 2000: Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson (G.P. Putnam's Sons, Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers)
- 1999: Frenchtown Summer by Robert Cormier (Delacorte Press)
- 1998: Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
- 1997: [Award added in 1998]
[edit] The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
- 2005: Beasts of No Nation: A Novel by Uzodinma Iweala (HarperCollins)
- 2004: Harbor by Lorraine Adams (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 2003: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Doubleday)
- 2002: Prague: A Novel by Arthur Phillips (Random House)
- 2001: The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert (Pantheon Books)
- 2000: The Romantics: A Novel by Pankaj Mishra (Random House)
- 1999: Amy and Isabelle: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
- 1998: Kalimantaan by C.S. Godshalk (Henry Holt)
- 1997: Don't Erase Me: Stories by Carolyn Ferrell (Houghton Mifflin)
- 1996: The Smell of Apples by Mark Behr (St. Martin's)
- 1995: American Studies by Mark Merlis (Houghton Mifflin)
- 1994: The Year of the Frog by Martin M. Šimecka (Louisiana State University Press)
- 1993: Love <Enter> by Paul Kafka (Houghton Mifflin)
- 1992: High Cotton by Darryl Pinckney (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- 1991: Pangs of Love by David Wong Louie (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 1990: (Award added in 1991)
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- [1] Los Angeles Times Book Prizes home page
