Lukas Prizes Shortlists Announced

Feb 26, 2019

Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University have announced the 2019 shortlist for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Awards, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the Mark Lynton History Prize. The Lukas Prizes, established in 1998, aim to honor the best in American nonfiction writing.
 
The winners and runners-up of the 2019 Lukas Prizes will be announced on Wednesday, March 20. The awards will be presented at a ceremony on Tuesday, May 7, 2019, at the Nieman Foundation in Cambridge, Mass.
 
The shortlists are as follows:
 
J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Awards:

  • Maurice Chammah, Let Them Sort It Out (Crown)
  • Steven Dudley, Mara (Hanover Square Press)
  • Amelia Pang, Made In China(Algonquin Books)
  • Lauren Sandler, This Is All I Got (Penguin Random House)
  • Sarah Schulman, Let the Record Show (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

 
J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize:

  • Shane Bauer, American Prison (Penguin Press)
  • Howard Blum, In the Enemy's House (HarperCollins)
  • Lauren Hilgers, Patriot Number One (Crown)
  • Chris McGreal, American Overdose (PublicAffairs)
  • Sarah Smarsh, Heartland (Scribner)

 
Mark Lynton History Prize: 

  • David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass (Simon & Schuster)
  • Andrew Delbanco, The War Before the War (Penguin Press)
  • Edith Sheffer, Asperger's Children (W.W. Norton & Company)
  • Jeffrey C. Stewart, The New Negro (Oxford University Press)
  • Steven J. Zipperstein, Pogrom (Liveright)
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