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 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

References

1. "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. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
16. "Columbia Journalism School Announces the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Shortlist". Columbia Journalism School. 2019-02-26. 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.

External links

• Past winners and jurors at Columbia School of Journalism