J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
Encyclopedia
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.” The prize is given by the Nieman Foundation and by the Columbia University
School of Journalism.
The prize is named for Pulitzer Prize
-winning American journalist and author, J. Anthony Lukas
.
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
School of Journalism.
The prize is named for Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
-winning American journalist and author, J. Anthony Lukas
J. Anthony Lukas
Jay Anthony Lukas, aka J. Anthony Lucas , was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author, probably best known for his 1985 book Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, a classic study of race relations and school busing in Boston, Massachusetts, as...
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Winners
- 1999 – Henry Mayer for All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery.
- 2000 – Witold RybczynskiWitold RybczynskiWitold Rybczynski , is a Canadian-American architect, professor and writer.Rybczynski was born in Edinburgh of Polish parentage and raised in Surrey, England before moving at a young age to Canada. He attended Loyola High School , located on Sherbrooke street, in Montreal-Ouest...
for A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth CenturyA Clearing in the DistanceA Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and North America in the Nineteenth Century is a biography of 19th century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, published in 1999, by Canadian architect, professor and writer Witold Rybczynski....
. - 2001 – David NasawDavid NasawDavid Nasaw is an author and a professor of American History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he is also chairman of the Center for the Humanities. He received his PhD from Columbia University...
for The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst. - 2002 – Diane McWhorterDiane McWhorterRebecca Diane McWhorter is an American journalist, commentator and author who has written extensively about race and the history of civil rights. Her book, Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution , was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General...
for Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution - 2003 – Samantha PowerSamantha PowerSamantha Power is an Irish American academic, governmental official and writer. She is currently a Special Assistant to President Barack Obama and runs the Office of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights as Senior Director of Multilateral Affairs on the Staff of the National Security Council...
for Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide - 2004 – David MaranissDavid MaranissDavid Maraniss is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. As a reporter for The Washington Post he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his stories about the life and career of candidate Bill Clinton in the 1992 campaign for the U.S...
for They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967. - 2005 – Evan WrightEvan WrightEvan Wright is an American writer, journalist, author and television writer and producer. He has reported extensively on subcultures for Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. His latest work is American Desperado, a book he co-wrote with Jon Roberts, who was featured in the documentary the Cocaine...
for Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War. - 2006 – Nate Blakeslee for Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town.
- 2007 – Lawrence WrightLawrence WrightLawrence Wright is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, screenwriter, staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law...
for The Looming Tower: Al Quaeda and the Road to 9/11. - 2008 – Jeffrey ToobinJeffrey ToobinJeffrey Ross Toobin is an American lawyer, author, and legal analyst for CNN and The New Yorker.-Early life and education:...
for The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court. - 2009 – Jane MayerJane MayerJane Mayer is an American investigative journalist who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1995...
for The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals. - 2010 – David FinkelDavid FinkelDavid Louis Finkel is an American journalist. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 as a staff writer at the Washington Post. He is currently assigned to the national staff as an enterprise reporter. He has also worked for the Post's foreign staff division...
for The Good Soldiers. - 2011 – Eliza GriswoldEliza GriswoldEliza Griswold is an award-winning American journalist and poet. She is a fellow at the New America Foundation and won a 2010 Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters....
for The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam.