2022 Lukas Prize Winners Announced
Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard have announced the four winners and two finalists of the 2022 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards. The shortlists were announced last month. The Lukas Prizes, established in 1998 and consisting of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Awards, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and the Mark Lynton History Prize, honor the best in American nonfiction writing.
The awards ceremony will take place on May 3 at Columbia Journalism School.
Winners and Finalists of the 2022 Lukas Prizes:
J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award Winners
- Roxanna Asgarian, We Were Once a Family: The Hart Murder-Suicide and the System Failing Our Kids (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- May Jeong, The Life: Sex, Work, and Love in America (Atria)
J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
- Winner: Andrea Elliott, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Random House)
- Finalist: Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Doubleday)
Mark Lynton History Prize
- Winner: Jane Rogoyska, Surviving Katyń: Stalin’s Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth (Oneworld/Simon & Schuster)
- Finalist: Katie Booth, The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to End Deafness (Simon & Schuster)