2020 Lukas Prizes Winners and Finalists Announced

Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University have announced the 2021 winners of 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, were established to honor the best in American nonfiction writing. The awards will be presented at a virtual ceremony on May 4.

The winners and finalists are as follows:

J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Awards (Two awards of $25,000)

• Emily Dufton, for Addiction, Inc.: How the Corporate Takeover of America’s Treatment Industry Created a Profitable Epidemic (University of Chicago Press)
• Casey Parks, for Diary of a Misfit (Knopf)

J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize ($10,000 to the winner)

• Winner: Jessica Goudeau, for After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America by (Viking).
• Finalist: Barton Gellman, for A Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State (Penguin Press)

Mark Lynton History Prize ($10,000 to the winner)

• Winner: William G. Thomas III, for A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War (Yale University Press)
• Finalist: Martha S. Jones, for Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All (Basic Books).