Andrea Elliott, Jane Rogoyska, Roxanna Asgarian, and May Jeong are the winners of this year’s J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards.
Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard made the announcement in a news release. The prizes are given yearly to outstanding works of nonfiction.
Elliott won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City, which was previously a finalist the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award. Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty was named a finalist for the Lukas Prize.
Rogoyska’s Surviving Katyn: Stalin’s Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth was named the winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize, with Katie Booth’s The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to End Deafness honored as the finalist.
The winners of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award were Asgarian for We Were Once a Family: The Hart Murder-Suicide and the System Failing Our Kids, and Jeong for The Life: Sex, Work, and Love in America.
The Lukas Prize Project Awards, named for the late journalist and author of Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, were established in 1998. Past winners have included David Finkel for The Good Soldiers, Jeffrey Toobin for The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, and Isabel Wilkerson for The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
