Times Announces Book Prizes
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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).
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