Lukas Prize Shortlists Announced

Feb 25, 2021

Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University have announced the shortlists 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, honor the best in American nonfiction writing.

The winners and finalists of the 2021 Lukas Prizes will be announced on Thursday, March 24. The awards will be presented virtually at a ceremony on Tuesday, May 4.

The shortlists are as follows:

J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Awards Shortlist

  • David Dennis Jr., The Movement Made Us (HarperCollins)
  • Emily Dufton, Addiction, Inc. (University of Chicago Press)
  • Channing Gerard Joseph, House of Swann (Crown Publishing Group)
  • Casey Parks, Diary of a Misfit (Knopf)
  • Elizabeth Rush, The Mother of All Things (Milkweed Editions)

J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Shortlist

  • Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close (Grand Central Publishing)
  • Seyward Darby, Sisters in Hate (Little, Brown and Company)
  • Barton Gellman, Dark Mirror (Penguin Press)
  • Jessica Goudeau, After the Last Border (Viking)
  • Isabel Wilkerson, Caste (Random House)

Mark Lynton History Prize Shortlist

  • Walter Johnson, The Broken Heart of America (Basic Books)
  • Martha S. Jones, Vanguard (Basic Books)
  • Les Payne and Tamara Payne, The Dead Are Arising (Liveright)
  • Géraldine Schwarz, Those Who Forget (Scribner)
  • William G. Thomas III, A Question of Freedom (Yale University Press)

Correction: This story has been updated with the correct spelling of Emily Dufton's name, as well as the correct date for the prize announcement.

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