Finalist: Walt Whitman: A Life , by Justin Kaplan (Simon & Schuster )
The Jury
The Jury
Beatrice Hofstadter White(Chair)
Author
John Kenneth Galbraith
Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Harvard University
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Distinguished Professor of History, CUNY Graduate Center
Winners in Biography
1981 Prize Winners
Dave Anderson
For his commentary on sports.
Jonathan Yardley
For his book reviews.