1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
Presented at the Los Angeles Times
Biography
Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)
Current Interest
Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number by Jacobo Timerman (Alfred A. Knopf)
Fiction
The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas (Viking)
History
Land of Savagery/Land of Promise by Ray Allen Billington (W.W. Norton)
Mystery / Thriller
[Award added in 2000]
Poetry
Three Pieces by Ntozake Shange (St. Martin’s Press)
Science & Technology
[Award added in 1989]
Young Adult Fiction
[Award added in 1998]
The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
[Award added in 1991]
The Robert Kirsch Award
Wright Morris