Jessica Goudeau, William G. Thomas III, Emily Dufton, and Casey Parks are the winners of the 2021 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards.
Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University announced the winners Wednesday morning.
Goudeau won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America, with Barton Gellman named a finalist for Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State.
The Mark Lynton History Prize went to Thomas for A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery From the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War. Martha S. Jones’ Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for Allearned the finalist spot.
The two winners of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Awards were Dufton for Addiction, Inc.: How the Corporate Takeover of America’s Treatment Industry Created a Profitable Epidemic and Parks’ Diary of a Misfit.
The J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards were established in 1998, and are given to nonfiction books that exemplify “the literary grace and commitment to serious research and social concern.” They’re named after the late journalist and author of Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families.
Previous winners have included David Maraniss for They Marched Into Sunlight and Gary Younge for Another Day in the Death of America.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
