Finalist: Mozart: A Life , by Maynard Solomon (Alfred A. Knopf )
The Jury
The Jury
Brigitte Weeks(chair )
editor-in-chief
Bruce Clayton
Harry A. Logan Sr. Professor of History
Diane Wood Middlebrook
biographer, professor of English
Winners in Biography
1996 Prize Winners
Herb Caen
For his extraordinary and continuing contribution as a voice and conscience of his city.
Bob Keeler
For his detailed portrait of a progressive local Catholic parish and its parishioners.
E.R. Shipp
For her penetrating columns on race, welfare and other social issues.