The Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University announced the finalists for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards, given annually to outstanding works of American nonfiction.
Finalists for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize included Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain and Joshua Prager’s The Family Roe, both of which also have been shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. Also making the shortlist were Andrea Elliott’s Invisible Child, Scott Ellsworth’s The Ground Breaking, and Jessica Nordell’s The End of Bias.
Tiya Miles’ All That She Carried, a National Book Award winner and Kirkus Prize finalist, made the shortlist for the Mark Lynton History Prize, along with Katie Booth’s The Invention of Miracles, Noah Feldman’s The Broken Constitution, Amanda Frost’s You Are Not American, and Jane Rogoyska’s Surviving Katy?.
The finalists for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Awards were Roxanna Asgarian for We Were Once a Family, Robert Fieseler for American Scare, Benjamin Herold for Disillusioned, May Jeong for The Life, and Suki Kim for The Prince and the Revolutionary.
The Lukas Prizes were established in 1998. Past winners include Samantha Power for “A Problem From Hell”, Lawrence Wright for The Looming Tower, and Isabel Wilkerson for The Warmth of Other Suns.
The winner of this year’s awards will be announced on March 16.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
