J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

Annual prize for journalism

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 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

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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.

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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

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* Mark Lynton History Prize
* J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award

## References

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1. ^ a b c d "J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project". Nieman Foundation. Retrieved July 21, 2017.
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.
14. ^ "Announcing the 2018 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Shortlist". Columbia Journalism School. 2018-03-23. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
15. ^ "Announcing the 2018 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Winners and Finalists". Columbia Journalism School. 2018-03-28. Archived from the original on 2018-06-22. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
16. ^ "Columbia Journalism School Announces the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Shortlist". Columbia Journalism School. 2019-02-26. Archived from the original on 2019-04-19. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
17. ^ "Announcing the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Winners and Finalists". Columbia Journalism School. 2019-03-20. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
18. ^ "Columbia Journalism School Announces the 2020 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Shortlist". Columbia Journalism School. 2020-02-25. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
19. ^ "Announcing the 2020 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Winners and Finalists". Columbia Journalism School. 2020-03-18. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
20. ^ "Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation Announce the 2021 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Shortlist". Columbia Journalism School. 2021-02-25. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
21. ^ "Emily Dufton, Casey Parks, Jessica Goudeau and William G. Thomas III Named Winners of the 2021 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards". Columbia Journalism School. 2021-03-24. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
22. ^ Schaub, Michael (2022-03-23). "Winners of the 2022 Lukas Prizes Revealed". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2022-03-23.

## External links

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* Past winners and jurors at Columbia School of Journalism