J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

Given by J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project

Other Names: Anthony Lukas Book Prize Winner, Lukas Prize Project Awards
51 Works 47,606 Books 1,587 Reviews 4.2
Awarded by the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project
Co-administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard.
The J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize ($10,000) show more recognizes superb examples of nonfiction writing that exemplify literary grace, a commitment to serious research and social concern. Began in 1999. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (22), Finalist (24), No Stage (5)
Categories:
All, Nominee (4), No Category (47)
Years:
All, 2022 (2), 2021 (1), 2019 (3), 2018 (2), 2017 (1), 2016 (1), 2015 (1), 2014 (2), 2013 (2), 2012 (2), 2011 (4), 2010 (3), 2009 (3), 2008 (2), 2007 (4), 2006 (3), 2005 (2), 2004 (3), 2003 (3), 2002 (1), 2001 (3), 2000 (1), 1999 (2)

Winner 22

WorkYear
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott2022
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer2019
Janesville: An American Story by Amy Goldstein2018
Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge2017
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War by Susan Southard2016
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan by Jenny Nordberg2015
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink2014
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon2013
The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White by Daniel J. Sharfstein2012
The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam by Eliza Griswold2011
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel2010
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer2009
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin2008
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright2007
Tulia by Nate Blakeslee2006
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War by Evan Wright2005
They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967 by David Maraniss2004
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power2003
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter2002
The Chief: the Life of William Randolph Hearst by David Nasaw2001
A Clearing In The Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century by Witold Rybczynski2000
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery by Henry Mayer1999

Finalist 24

WorkYear
Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown by Lauren Hilgers2019
The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster by Jonathan M. Katz2014
Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz by Cynthia Carr2013
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable2012
Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class by Jefferson R. Cowie2011
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food by Paul Greenberg2011
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee2011
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe2010
Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America by Beryl Satter2010
The Closing of the American Border: Terrorism, Immigration, and Security Since 9/11 by Edward Alden2009
Blood Matters: From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene by Masha Gessen2009
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman2008
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch2007
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children by Melissa Fay Greene2007
Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War by Michael Isikoff2007
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird2006
Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald2006
American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare by Jason DeParle2005
And the Dead Shall Rise by Steve Oney2004
Fallingwater Rising: Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House by Franklin Toker2004
Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family by Charles Bowden2003
The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen2003
The Informant: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald2001
The Book of Honor : The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives by Ted Gup2001

No Stage 5

WorkCategoryYear
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden KeefeNominee2022
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel WilkersonNominee2021
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah SmarshNominee2019
Nomadland by Jessica BruderNominee2018
All On Fire: William Lloyd Garrison & The Abolition Of American Slavery (Part I of II) by Henry Mayer1999

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