About the Foundation Awards Nieman Foundation > About the Foundation > Awards > Lukas Prize Project The Lukas Prize Project Established in 1998, the Lukas Prize Project honors the best in American nonfiction writing. Co-administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, and sponsored by the family of the late Mark Lynton, a historian and senior executive at the firm Hunter Douglas in the Netherlands, three awards are given annually: The J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize ($10,000) recognizes superb examples of nonfiction writing that exemplify literary grace, a commitment to serious research and social concern. The Mark Lynton History Prize ($10,000) is awarded to the book-length work of history, on any subject, that best combines intellectual or scholarly distinction with felicity of expression The J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award ($30,000) is given annually to aid in the completion of a significant work of nonfiction. Winners   Lukas Book Prize Lynton History Prize Lukas Work-in-Progress Award 2008 Jeffrey Toobin Peter Silver Michelle Goldberg 2007 Lawrence Wright James T. Campbell Robert Whitaker 2006 Nate Blakeslee Megan Marshall Laura Claridge 2005 Evan Wright Richard Steven Street Joan Quigley 2004 David Maraniss Rebecca Solnit John Bowe 2003 Samantha Power Suzannah Lessard Robert Harms 2002 Diane McWhorter Mark Roseman Jacques Leslie 2001 David Nasaw Fred Anderson Max Holland 2000 Witold Rybczynski John W. Dower James Tobin 1999 Henry Mayer Adam Hochschild Kevin Coyne How to Apply Entry guidelines and forms are available on the Web site of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Background The J. Anthony Lukas Prizes are named for a winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, one as a newspaperman and the other as a book author. Lukas' first Pulitizer, in 1968, was for "The Two Worlds of Linda Fitzpatrick," an article in The New York Times on the life and, eventually, death of a wealthy Connecticut teenager involved in drugs and the hippie movement. The second Pulitzer, in 1986, was for his book, "Common Ground," about Boston school desegregation. Read more about Lukas. Mark Lynton, for whom the history prize is named, was a World War II major in the British Army. Shortly before his death in 1995 he wrote "Accidental Journey," a memoir of his war experience. Read excerpts from the Harvard conference at which the awards for 2000 were presented.

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