The J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, established in 1999, is a literary award "given annually to aid in the completion of a significant work of nonfiction on a topic of American political or social concern." [1] The prize is given by the Nieman Foundation and by the Columbia University School of Journalism [1] [2] and is intended to "assist in closing the gap between the time and money an author has and the time and money that finishing a book requires. [3]
Every year, one or two award winners receive an award of at least $25,000, [4] and a finalist may receive a $5,000 award. [5] [3] Shortlisted books, introduced in 2016, receive no monetary award. [6]
Titles listed below are the named titles in the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Awards documents. Because the books are listed as in-progress, the book titles may have changed after publication. When applicable, the published book has been linked.
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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1999 | Kevin Coyne | The Best Years of Their Lives: One Town’s Veterans and How They Changed the World | Winner | |
2000 | James Tobin | Work of the Wind: A Remarkable Family, an Overlooked Genius, and the Race for Flight | Winner | |
Larry Tye | Finalist | |||
Laura Bridgman | ||||
2001 | Max Holland | A Need to Know: Inside the Warren Commission | Winner | |
Elinor Langer | Finalist | |||
2002 | Jacques Leslie | On Dams | Winner | |
Harry Bruinius | Finalist | |||
Richard Steven Street | ||||
2003 | Suzannah Lessard | Mapping the New World: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Sprawl | Winner | |
Orlando Figes | Finalist | |||
Steven Stoll | ||||
2004 | John Bowe | Slavery Inc. | Winner | |
Eyal Press | Finalist | |||
Beryl Satter | ||||
2005 | Joan Quigley | Home Fires | Winner | |
Amy Bach | Finalist | |||
Steven Greenhouse | ||||
2006 | Laura Claridge | Emily Post and the Rise of Practical Feminism | Winner | [8] |
Bruce Barcott | Finalist | |||
Dudley Clendinen | ||||
2007 | Robert Whitaker | Twelve Condemned to Die: Scipio Africanus Jones and The Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation | Winner | |
Michael Punke | Finalist | |||
2008 | Michelle Goldberg | The Means of Reproduction | Winner | |
Lyanda Lynn Haupt | Finalist | |||
Cecilia Balli | ||||
2009 | Judy Pasternak | Yellow Dirt: The Betrayal of the Navajos | Winner | [9] |
2010 | Jonathan Schuppe | Ghetto Ball: A Coach, His Team, and the Struggle of an American City | Winner | |
David Philipps | Finalist | |||
2011 | Alex Tizon | Big Little Man: The Asian Male at the Dawn of the Asian Century | Winner | [4] |
Joe Mozingo | The Fiddler on Pantico Run | Finalist | [4] | |
Florence Williams | Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History | |||
2012 | Jonathan M. Katz | The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster | Winner | |
Susan Southard | Finalist | |||
2013 | Beth Macy | Factory Man | Winner | |
Jim Robbins | Finalist | |||
2014 | Adrienne Berard | When Yellow Was Black: The untold story of the first fight for desegregation in Southern schools | Winner | |
Yochi J. Dreazen | Finalist | |||
2015 | Dan Egan | Liquid Desert: Life and Death of the Great Lakes | Winner | |
Heather Ann Thompson | Finalist | |||
2016 | Steve Luxenberg | Separate: A Story of Race, Ambition and the Battle That Brought Legal Segregation to America | Winner | [10] |
Blaire Briody | Finalist | [10] | ||
Sasha Issenberg | Shortlist | |||
Steve Oney | ||||
Meredith Wadman | ||||
2017 | Christopher Leonard | Kochland | Winner | [5] [11] |
Helen Thorpe | The Newcomers | Finalist | [5] [11] | |
Marie Mutsuki Mockett | Shortlist | |||
Eyal Press | ||||
Richard Steven Street | ||||
2018 | Chris Hamby | Soul Full of Coal Dust: The True Story of An Epic Battle for Justice | Winner | [12] [13] |
Rachel Louise Snyder | No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us | |||
Arthur Holland Michel | Eyes in the Sky | Shortlist | [14] [15] | |
Katherine E. Standefer | Lightning Flowers | |||
Susan Vinocour | Nobody's Child: A Tragedy, a Trial, and the History of the Insanity Defense | |||
2019 | Maurice Chammah | Let the Lord Sort Them: Texas and the Death Penalty's Rise and Fall in America | Winner | [16] |
Steven Dudley | Mara: The Making of the MS13 | |||
Amelia Pang | Made in China: How an Engineer Ended Up in a Chinese Gulag Making Products for Kmart | Shortlist | [17] | |
Lauren Sandler | This Is All I Got: One Woman’s Desperate Year in the New Gilded Age | |||
Sarah Schulman | Let the Record Show: ACT UP and the Enduring Relationship of AIDS | |||
2020 | Bartow J. Elmore | Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and the Future of Food | Winner | [18] |
Shahan Mufti | American Caliph: The True Story of the Hanafi Siege, America’s First Homegrown Islamic Terror Attack | |||
Michelle Nijhuis | Beloved Beasts: The Story of Conservation and the Fight to Protect Life on Earth | Shortlist | [19] [20] | |
Sarah Schulman | Let the Record Show: A Political History of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, ACT UP, NY 1987-1993 | |||
Lawrence Tabak | Foxconned: How the Mindless Pursuit of Good Jobs Destroys Homes, Wastes Billions and Enriches the Few | |||
2021 | Emily Dufton | Addiction, Inc.: How the Corporate Takeover of America’s Treatment Industry Created a Profitable Epidemic | Winner | [21] [22] |
Casey Parks | Diary of a Misfit | |||
David Dennis Jr. | The Movement Made Us | Shortlist | [23] [24] | |
Channing Gerard Joseph | House of Swann: Where Slaves Became Queens — and Changed the World | |||
Elizabeth Rush | The Mother of All Things: On Climate Change, the Stories We Tell, and a Journey to the Edge of Antarctica | |||
2022 | Roxanna Asgarian | We Were Once a Family: The Hart Murder-Suicide and the System Failing Our Kids | Winner | [25] [26] [27] |
May Jeong | The Life: Sex, Work, and Love in America | |||
Robert Fieseler | American Scare: A Cold War in the Sunshine State | Finalist | [28] [29] [30] | |
Benjamin Herold | Disillusioned: How the Suburbs and Their Schools Undermine The American Dream | |||
Suki Kim | The Prince and the Revolutionary: Children of War |
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