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]
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]
Recipients
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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| Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Template:Ref heading |
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| 1999 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery | Winner | ||
| 2000 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | ||
| 2001 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | ||
| 2002 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution | Winner | ||
| 2003 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | ||
| 2004 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 | Winner | ||
| 2005 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War | Winner | ||
| 2006 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town | Winner | [5] | |
| 2007 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | [6] | |
| 2008 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | ||
| 2009 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Doubleday | Winner | [7] |
| 2010 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | ||
| 2011 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Winner | [8] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class | New Press | Finalist | [8] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food | Penguin Press | Finalist | [8] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Scribner | Finalist | [8] | |
| 2012 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Viking Press | Winner | [9] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention | Viking Press | Finalist | [9] | |
| 2013 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity | Scribner | Winner | [10] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz | Bloomsbury | Finalist | [10] | |
| 2014 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital | Crown Publishers | Winner | [11] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Palgrave Macmillan | Finalist | [11] | |
| 2015 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Crown Publishers | Winner | [12] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Shortlist | [12] | |
| 2016 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War | Viking Penguin | Winner | [13] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Finalist | [13] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Liveright | Shortlist | [14] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". and H. Luke Shaefer | $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Shortlist | [14] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy | Viking Penguin | Shortlist | [14] | |
| 2017 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives | Nation Books | Winner | [15][16] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Crown | Finalist | [15][16] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning On the American Right | The New Press | Shortlist | [17] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America | Viking | Shortlist | [17] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right | Doubleday | Shortlist | [17] | |
| 2018 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Janesville: An American Story | Simon & Schuster | Winner | [18] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century | W.W. Norton & Company | Finalist | [18] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West | Crown | Shortlist | [19] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Crown | Shortlist | [19] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Scribner | Shortlist | [19] | |
| 2019 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment | Penguin Press | Winner | [20] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown | Crown | Finalist | [20] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | In the Enemy's House: The Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Code Breaker Who Caught the Russian Spies | HarperCollins | Shortlist | [21] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts | PublicAffairs | Shortlist | [21] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth | Scribner | Shortlist | [21] | |
| 2020 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Nan A. Talese/Doubleday | Winner | [22][23] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Charged: The Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration | Random House | Finalist | [22][23] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness | St. Martin's Press | Shortlist | [24][25] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Broke: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises | St. Martin's Press | Shortlist | [24][25] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Penguin Press | Shortlist | [24][25] | |
| 2021 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America | Viking | Winner | [26][27] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State | Penguin Press | Finalist | [26][27] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence | Grand Central Publishing | Shortlist | [28][29] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism | Little, Brown and Company | Shortlist | [28][29] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents | Random House | Shortlist | [28][29] | |
| 2022 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City | Random House | Winner | [30][31] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty | Doubleday | Finalist | [30][31] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Dutton | Shortlist | [32][33] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Metropolitan | Shortlist | [32][33] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Norton/Liverigh | Shortlist | [32][33] | |
| 2023 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation | Doubleday | Winner | [34] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". and Toluse Olorunnipa | His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice | Viking | Finalist | [34] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Shortlist | [35] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods | Little, Brown Spark | Shortlist | [35] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | It Was Vulgar & It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic | Bold Type Books | Shortlist | [35] | |
| 2024 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Winner | [36] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State | Knopf | Finalist | [36] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Blood Farm: The Explosive Big Pharma Scandal that Altered the AIDS Crisis | Shortlist | [37] | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". and Zusha Elinson | American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 | Shortlist | [37] | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Shortlist | [37] | ||
| 2025 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land | Harper | Winner | [38] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". and Stefan Timmermans | Script error: No such module "sort". | Crown | Finalist | [39] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life | Crown | Shortlist | [39] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice | Penguin Random House | Shortlist | [39] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance | Metropolitan | Shortlist | [39] |
See also
References
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