J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

The J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize is an annual award in the amount of $10,000 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 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize ($10,000)
  • The Mark Lynton History Prize ($10,000)
  • The J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award ($25,000 plus $5,000 for an annual finalist)

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 Quaeda 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 GriswoldThe Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and IslamFarrar, Straus & Giroux
Jefferson Cowie*Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working ClassNew Press
Paul Greenberg*Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild FoodPenguin Press
Siddhartha Mukherjee*The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of CancerScribner
2012[6]Daniel J. SharfsteinThe Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to WhiteViking Press
Manning Marable*Malcolm X: A Life of ReinventionViking Press
2013[7]Andrew SolomonFar from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for IdentityScribner
Cynthia Carr*Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David WojnarowiczBloomsbury
2014[8]Sheri FinkFive Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged HospitalCrown Publishers
Jonathan M. Katz*The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a DisasterPalgrave Macmillan
2015[9]Jenny NordbergThe Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in AfghanistanCrown Publishers
Joshua Davis*Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American DreamFarrar, Straus and Giroux
2016[10][11]Susan SouthardNagasaki: Life After Nuclear WarViking Penguin
Adam BriggleA Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking: How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and GasLiveright
Kathryn J. Edin & H. Luke Shaefer$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in AmericaHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
Dale Russakoff*The Prize: Who's in Charge of America's Schools?Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Stephen WittHow Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of PiracyViking Penguin
2017[12][13]Gary YoungeAnother Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short LivesNation Books
Arlie Russell Hochschild Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning On the American RightThe New Press
Nancy IsenbergWhite Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in AmericaViking
Jane MayerDark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical RightDoubleday
Zachary Roth*The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on DemocracyCrown
2018[14][15]Amy GoldsteinJanesville: An American StorySimon & Schuster
Nate BlakesleeAmerican Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the WestCrown
Jessica Bruder*Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First CenturyW.W. Norton & Company
Lauren MarkhamThe Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants And the Making of an American LifeCrown
Helen ThorpeThe Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American ClassroomScribner
2019[16][17]Shane BauerAmerican Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of PunishmentPenguin Press
Howard BlumIn the Enemy's House: The Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Code Breaker Who Caught the Russian SpiesHarperCollins
Lauren Hilgers*Patriot Number One: American Dreams in ChinatownCrown
Chris McGrealAmerican Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three ActsPublicAffairs
Sarah SmarshHeartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on EarthScribner
2020[18][19]Alex KotlowitzAn American Summer: Love and Death in ChicagoNan A. Talese/Doubleday
Emily Bazelon*Charged: The Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass IncarcerationRandom House
Jennifer Berry HawesGrace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to ForgivenessSt. Martin’s Press
Jodie Adams KirshnerBroke: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken PromisesSt. Martin’s Press
Margaret O'MaraThe Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of AmericaPenguin Press

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.
  4. "The J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards". Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  5. "Columbia, Nieman Foundation announce winners of the 2011 Lukas Prize Project". Nieman Foundation. 2011-03-30. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  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.
  11. "2016 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards". Nieman Foundation. 2016-05-10. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  12. "Announcing the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Shortlist". Nieman Foundation. 2017-02-21. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  13. "Gary Younge, Christopher Leonard and Tyler Anbinder named winners of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards". Nieman Foundation. 2017-03-27. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
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  18. "Columbia Journalism School Announces the 2020 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Shortlist". Columbia Journalism School. 2020-02-25. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
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