J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

The J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize is an annual $10,000 award given to a book that exemplifies, "literary grace, a commitment to serious research and social concern."[1] The prize is given by the Nieman Foundation and by the Columbia University School of Journalism.[1][2]

Established in 1998, the Lukas Prize Project consists of three awards:[1]

The project is named for Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author, J. Anthony Lukas; it has been underwritten since its inception by the family of Mark Lynton, a German Jew who had careers with the British military, Citroen and Hunter Douglas.[1][3]

Winners and Shortlisted Authors

In the list below, winners are listed first in the gold row, followed by the other nominees. Any finalists are marked with an asterisk.[4] Note that shortlists were announced only starting in 2016; previously they would just announce winners and any finalists.

  indicates the winner
Year Author Title Publisher
1999 Henry Mayer All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery
2000 Witold Rybczynski A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century
2001 David Nasaw The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
2002 Diane McWhorter Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
2003 Samantha Power "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
2004 David Maraniss They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967
2005 Evan Wright Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
2006 Nate Blakeslee Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
2007 Lawrence Wright The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
2008 Jeffrey Toobin The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
2009 Jane Mayer The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
2010 David Finkel The Good Soldiers
2011[5] Eliza Griswold The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Jefferson Cowie* Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class New Press
Paul Greenberg* Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food Penguin Press
Siddhartha Mukherjee* The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Scribner
2012[6] Daniel J. Sharfstein The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White Viking Press
Manning Marable* Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention Viking Press
2013[7] Andrew Solomon Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity Scribner
Cynthia Carr* Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz Bloomsbury
2014[8] Sheri Fink Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital Crown Publishers
Jonathan M. Katz* The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster Palgrave Macmillan
2015[9] Jenny Nordberg The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan Crown Publishers
Joshua Davis* Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2016[10][11] Susan Southard Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War Viking Penguin
Adam Briggle A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking: How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas Liveright
Kathryn J. Edin & H. Luke Shaefer $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Dale Russakoff* The Prize: Who's in Charge of America's Schools? Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Stephen Witt How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy Viking Penguin
2017[12][13] Gary Younge Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives Nation Books
Arlie Russell Hochschild Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning On the American Right The New Press
Nancy Isenberg White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America Viking
Jane Mayer Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right Doubleday
Zachary Roth* The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy Crown
2018[14][15] Amy Goldstein Janesville: An American Story Simon & Schuster
Nate Blakeslee American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West Crown
Jessica Bruder* Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century W.W. Norton & Company
Lauren Markham The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants And the Making of an American Life Crown
Helen Thorpe The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom Scribner
2019[16][17] Shane Bauer American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment Penguin Press
Howard Blum In the Enemy's House: The Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Code Breaker Who Caught the Russian Spies HarperCollins
Lauren Hilgers* Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown Crown
Chris McGreal American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts PublicAffairs
Sarah Smarsh Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth Scribner
2020[18][19] Alex Kotlowitz An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Emily Bazelon* Charged: The Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration Random House
Jennifer Berry Hawes Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness St. Martin's Press
Jodie Adams Kirshner Broke: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises St. Martin's Press
Margaret O'Mara The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America Penguin Press
2021[20][21] Jessica Goudeau After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America Viking
Becky Cooper We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence Grand Central Publishing
Seyward Darby Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism Little, Brown and Company
Barton Gellman* Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State Penguin Press
Isabel Wilkerson Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Random House
2022[22] Andrea Elliott Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Patrick Radden Keefe Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

See also

References

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  2. ^ "The J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards". Columbia Journalism School. Retrieved October 23, 2019.
  3. ^ "Review: "Accidental Journey: A Cambridge Internee's Memoir of World War II," by Mark Lynton". Kirkus Reviews. February 15, 1995. Retrieved July 21, 2017.
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  6. ^ "2012 Lukas Prize Project Awards Announced". Nieman Foundation. 2012-03-16. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  7. ^ "2013 Lukas Awards go to Niemans". Nieman Foundation. 2013-04-18. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  8. ^ "Sheri Fink, Jill Lepore and Adrienne Berard Are Named Winners of the 2014 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards". Nieman Foundation. 2014-04-09. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  9. ^ "Jenny Nordberg, Harold Holzer and Dan Egan Win the 2015 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards". Nieman Foundation. 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  10. ^ "Announcing the 2016 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Shortlist". Nieman Foundation. 2016-02-22. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
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