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]

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.

Award winners and finalists[7]
Year Author Title Result Ref.
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 [9]
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 [10]
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 Finalist [4]
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 [11]
Blaire Briody Finalist [11]
Sasha Issenberg Shortlist
Steve Oney
Meredith Wadman
2017 Christopher Leonard Kochland Winner [5][12]
Helen Thorpe The Newcomers Finalist [5][12]
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 [13][14]
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 [15][16]
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 [17]
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 [18]
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 [19]
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 [20][21]
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 [22][23]
Casey Parks Diary of a Misfit
David Dennis Jr. The Movement Made Us Shortlist [24][25]
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 [26][27][28]
May Jeong The Life: Sex, Work, and Love in America
Robert Fieseler American Scare: A Cold War in the Sunshine State Finalist [29][30][31]
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 Family Winner [32]
Mike Hixenbaugh Uncivil: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New Battle for America's Schools
Rebecca Kelliher Shortlist [32]
Megan Kimble
Jessica Pishko
2024 Lorraine Boissoneault Body Weather: Notes on Illness in the Anthropocene Winner [33]
Alice Driver The Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project". Nieman Foundation. Retrieved March 23, 2022.
  2. ^ "The J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards". Columbia Journalism School. Retrieved October 23, 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation Announce the 2021". J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Shortlist | Columbia Journalism School. February 25, 2021. Retrieved March 23, 2022.
  4. ^ a b c d "Awards: Pulitzer, Lukas Winners". Shelf Awareness. April 29, 2011. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  5. ^ a b c "Gary Younge, Christopher Leonard and Tyler Anbinder Named Winners of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards" (PDF). Columbia Journalism School. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  6. ^ "Awards: Montana Book; Nebulas; Lukas". Shelf Awareness. February 23, 2016. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  7. ^ "The J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards". Columbia Journalism School. Retrieved March 23, 2022.
  8. ^ "Awards: The Lukas Prizes; Man Stands by its Booker". Shelf Awareness. March 27, 2006. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  9. ^ "Awards: Kiriyama and Lukas Winners; RITA Finalists". Shelf Awareness. March 29, 2007. Retrieved March 11, 2025.
  10. ^ "Awards: Lukas Winners; Orange Award for New Writers Shortlist". Shelf Awareness. April 8, 2009. Retrieved March 11, 2025.
  11. ^ a b "Awards: Christophers; Lukas". Shelf Awareness. March 31, 2016. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  12. ^ a b "Awards: J. Anthony Lukas; Shaughnessy Cohen". www.shelf-awareness.com. March 27, 2017. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  13. ^ "Announcing the 2018 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Winners and Finalists". Columbia Journalism School. March 28, 2018. Archived from the original on June 22, 2018. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  14. ^ "Awards: J. Anthony Lukas; Hans Christian Andersen". Shelf Awareness. March 27, 2018. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  15. ^ "Awards: Lukas and Lynton; International Arabic Fiction". Shelf Awareness. February 23, 2018. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
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  17. ^ "Awards: J. Anthony Lukas Winners; CILIP Carnegie, Kate Greenaway Shortlists". Shelf Awareness. March 20, 2019. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  18. ^ "Awards: Lukas Shortlist". Shelf Awareness. February 26, 2019. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  19. ^ "Awards: Lukas Prize Project, Wingate Literary Winners". Shelf Awareness. March 18, 2020. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  20. ^ "Awards: Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Winners; Lukas Prizes Shortlists". Shelf Awareness. February 26, 2020. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  21. ^ Schaub, Michael (February 25, 2020). "J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Shortlist Revealed". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  22. ^ "Awards: Publishing Triangle; Lukas; Canadian Picture Book". Shelf Awareness. March 24, 2021. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
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  24. ^ "Awards: Montana Book Winner; Walter Scott Historical Fiction Longlist; Lukas Shortlists". Shelf Awareness. February 25, 2021. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  25. ^ Schaub, Michael (February 25, 2021). "J. Anthony Lukas Prize Shortlists Are Revealed". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  26. ^ The Associated Press (March 23, 2022). "'Invisible Child' is among winners of Lukas book prizes". The Toronto Star. ISSN 0319-0781. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  27. ^ Caplan, Walker (March 22, 2022). "Here are this year's winners of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards". Literary Hub. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  28. ^ Schaub, Michael (March 24, 2022). "Winners of the 2022 Lukas Prizes Revealed". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  29. ^ "Winners and finalists of the 2022 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards announced". Nieman Foundation. March 23, 2022. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  30. ^ Schaub, Michael (February 24, 2022). "The Lukas Prize Project Reveals Shortlists". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  31. ^ "Awards: Lionel Gelber, Lukas Shortlists". Shelf Awareness. February 24, 2022. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  32. ^ a b "The J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards - Past Winners".
  33. ^ "Dashka Slater, Ned Blackhawk, Lorraine Boissoneault, Alice Driver Named Winners of the 2024 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards". Columbia Journalism School. March 19, 2024.
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