J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award

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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]

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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]

Recipients

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.

J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award winners and finalists [7]
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
1999Kevin CoyneThe Best Years of Their Lives: One Town’s Veterans and How They Changed the WorldWinner
2000 James Tobin Work of the Wind: A Remarkable Family, an Overlooked Genius, and the Race for FlightWinner
Larry Tye Finalist
Laura Bridgman
2001 Max Holland A Need to Know: Inside the Warren CommissionWinner
Elinor Langer Finalist
2002 Jacques Leslie On DamsWinner
Harry Bruinius Finalist
Richard Steven Street
2003 Suzannah Lessard Mapping the New World: An Inquiry into the Meaning of SprawlWinner
Orlando Figes Finalist
Steven Stoll
2004 John Bowe Slavery Inc.Winner
Eyal Press Finalist
Beryl Satter
2005Joan Quigley Home Fires Winner
Amy Bach Finalist
Steven Greenhouse
2006 Laura Claridge Emily Post and the Rise of Practical FeminismWinner [8]
Bruce Barcott Finalist
Dudley Clendinen
2007 Robert Whitaker Twelve Condemned to Die: Scipio Africanus Jones and The Struggle for Justice That Remade a NationWinner
Michael Punke Finalist
2008 Michelle Goldberg The Means of ReproductionWinner
Lyanda Lynn Haupt Finalist
Cecilia Balli
2009 Judy Pasternak Yellow Dirt: The Betrayal of the NavajosWinner [9]
2010 Jonathan Schuppe Ghetto Ball: A Coach, His Team, and the Struggle of an American CityWinner
David Philipps Finalist
2011 Alex Tizon Big Little Man: The Asian Male at the Dawn of the Asian CenturyWinner [4]
Joe Mozingo The Fiddler on Pantico RunFinalist [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 DisasterWinner
Susan Southard Finalist
2013 Beth Macy Factory ManWinner
Jim Robbins Finalist
2014 Adrienne Berard When Yellow Was Black: The untold story of the first fight for desegregation in Southern schoolsWinner
Yochi J. Dreazen Finalist
2015 Dan Egan Liquid Desert: Life and Death of the Great LakesWinner
Heather Ann Thompson Finalist
2016 Steve Luxenberg Separate: A Story of Race, Ambition and the Battle That Brought Legal Segregation to AmericaWinner [10]
Blaire Briody Finalist [10]
Sasha Issenberg Shortlist
Steve Oney
Meredith Wadman
2017 Christopher Leonard Kochland Winner [5] [11]
Helen Thorpe The NewcomersFinalist [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 JusticeWinner [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 SkyShortlist [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 AmericaWinner [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 KmartShortlist [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 FoodWinner [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 EarthShortlist [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 EpidemicWinner [21] [22]
Casey Parks Diary of a Misfit
David Dennis Jr. The Movement Made UsShortlist [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 KidsWinner [25] [26] [27]
May Jeong The Life: Sex, Work, and Love in America
Robert Fieseler American Scare: A Cold War in the Sunshine StateFinalist [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
2023 Jesselyn Cook The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American FamilyWinner [31]
Mike Hixenbaugh Uncivil: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New Battle for America's Schools
Rebecca Kelliher Shortlist [31]
Megan Kimble
Jessica Pishko
2024 Lorraine Boissoneault Body Weather: Notes on Illness in the AnthropoceneWinner [32]
Alice Driver The Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company

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  14. ↑ "Awards: Lukas and Lynton; International Arabic Fiction". Shelf Awareness. 2018-02-23. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
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