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1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners

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

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

The Heart of the Country by Fay Weldon (Viking)

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

[Award added in 2000]

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

Peacemaking among Primates by Frans de Waal (Harvard University Press)

[Award added in 1998]

[Award added in 1991]

Karl Shapiro