J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

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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]

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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
YearAuthorTitlePublisher
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 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 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 WhiteViking 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 WojnarowiczBloomsbury
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 DisasterPalgrave 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 DreamFarrar, 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 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 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 DemocracyCrown
2018 [14] [15] Amy Goldstein Janesville: An American Story Simon & Schuster
Nate Blakeslee American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the WestCrown
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 LifeCrown
Helen Thorpe The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American ClassroomScribner
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 SpiesHarperCollins
Lauren Hilgers*Patriot Number One: American Dreams in ChinatownCrown
Chris McGreal American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three ActsPublicAffairs
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 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'Mara The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of AmericaPenguin Press
2021 [20] [21] Jessica GoudeauAfter the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in AmericaViking
Becky Cooper We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of SilenceGrand Central Publishing
Seyward DarbySisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White NationalismLittle, Brown and Company
Barton Gellman*Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance StatePenguin 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

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References

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