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{{Short description|Annual literary award}}
The '''J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award''', established in 1999, is a literary award "given annually to aid in the completion of a significant work of nonfiction on a topic of American political or social concern."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project |url=https://nieman.harvard.edu/awards/j-anthony-lukas-prize-project/ |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=Nieman Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref> The prize is given by the [[Nieman Foundation]] and by the [[Columbia University School of Journalism]]<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Columbia">{{cite web |title=The J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards |url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/lukas |publisher=Columbia Journalism School |accessdate=October 23, 2019}}</ref> and is intended to "assist in closing the gap between the time and money an author has and the time and money that finishing a book requires.<ref name=":1" />
Every year, one or two award winners receive an award of at least $25,000,<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2011-04-29 |title=Awards: Pulitzer, Lukas Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1443 |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Shelf Awareness}}</ref> and a finalist may receive a $5,000 award.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Gary Younge, Christopher Leonard and Tyler Anbinder Named Winners of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards |url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/system/files/content/lukas2017announce-3.24-final_1.pdf |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Columbia Journalism School}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2021-02-25 |title=Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation Announce the 2021 |url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/2021-j-anthony-lukas-prize-project-awards-shortlist |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Shortlist {{!}} Columbia Journalism School}}</ref> Shortlisted books, introduced in 2016, receive no monetary award.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2016-02-23 |title=Awards: Montana Book; Nebulas; Lukas |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2695 |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Shelf Awareness}}</ref>
== Recipients ==
Titles listed below are the named titles in the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Awards documents. Because the books are listed as in-progress, the book titles may have changed after publication. When applicable, the published book has been linked.
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|+J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award winners and finalists<ref>{{Cite web |title=The J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards |url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/lukas |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=Columbia Journalism School}}</ref>
!Year
!Author
!Title
!Result
!Ref.
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
!1999
|{{Sortname|Kevin|Coyne|nolink=1}}
|''The Best Years of Their Lives: One Town’s Veterans and How They Changed the World''
|Winner
|
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
! rowspan="3" |2000
|[[James Tobin (author)|James Tobin]]
|''Work of the Wind: A Remarkable Family, an Overlooked Genius, and the Race for Flight''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{Sortname|Larry|Tye}}
|
| rowspan="2" |Finalist
|
|-
|{{Sortname|Laura|Bridgman|nolink=1}}
|
|
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
! rowspan="2" |2001
|{{Sortname|Max|Holland}}
|''A Need to Know: Inside the Warren Commission''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{Sortname|Elinor|Langer}}
|
|Finalist
|
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
! rowspan="3" |2002
|{{Sortname|Jacques|Leslie}}
|''On Dams''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{Sortname|Harry|Bruinius}}
|
| rowspan="2" |Finalist
|
|-
|{{Sortname|Richard Steven|Street}}
|
|
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
! rowspan="3" |2003
|{{Sortname|Suzannah|Lessard}}
|''Mapping the New World: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Sprawl''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{Sortname|Orlando|Figes}}
|
| rowspan="2" |Finalist
|
|-
|{{Sortname|Steven|Stoll}}
|
|
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
! rowspan="3" |2004
|{{Sortname|John|Bowe|John Bowe (author)}}
|''Slavery Inc.''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{Sortname|Eyal|Press}}
|
| rowspan="2" |Finalist
|
|-
|{{Sortname|Beryl|Satter}}
|
|
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
! rowspan="3" |2005
|{{Sortname|Joan|Quigley|nolink=1}}
|''[[Home Fires (novel)|Home Fires]]''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{Sortname|Amy|Bach}}
|
| rowspan="2" |Finalist
|
|-
|{{Sortname|Steven|Greenhouse}}
|
|
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
! rowspan="3" |2006
|{{Sortname|Laura|Claridge}}
|''Emily Post and the Rise of Practical Feminism''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2006-03-27 |title=Awards: The Lukas Prizes; Man Stands by its Booker |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=175 |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Shelf Awareness}}</ref>
|-
|{{Sortname|Bruce|Barcott}}
|
| rowspan="2" |Finalist
|
|-
|{{Sortname|Dudley|Clendinen}}
|
|
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
! rowspan="2" |2007
|{{Sortname|Robert|Whitaker|Robert Whitaker (author)}}
|''Twelve Condemned to Die: Scipio Africanus Jones and The Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{Sortname|Michael|Punke}}
|
|Finalist
|
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
! rowspan="3" |2008
|{{Sortname|Michelle|Goldberg}}
|''The Means of Reproduction''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{Sortname|Lyanda Lynn|Haupt}}
|
| rowspan="2" |Finalist
|
|-
|{{Sortname|Cecilia|Balli}}
|
|
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
!2009
|{{Sortname|Judy|Pasternak}}
|''Yellow Dirt: The Betrayal of the Navajos''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-04-08 |title=Awards: Lukas Winners; Orange Award for New Writers Shortlist |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=896 |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Shelf Awareness}}</ref>
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
! rowspan="2" |2010
|{{Sortname|Jonathan|Schuppe}}
|''Ghetto Ball: A Coach, His Team, and the Struggle of an American City''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{Sortname|David|Philipps}}
|
|Finalist
|
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
! rowspan="3" |2011
|{{Sortname|Alex|Tizon}}
|''Big Little Man: The Asian Male at the Dawn of the Asian Century''
|Winner
|<ref name=":3" />
|-
|{{Sortname|Joe|Mozingo}}
|''The Fiddler on Pantico Run''
| rowspan="2" |Finalist
| rowspan="2" |<ref name=":3" />
|-
|{{Sortname|Florence|Williams}}
|''Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History''
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
! rowspan="2" |2012
|{{Sortname|Jonathan M.|Katz}}
|''The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{Sortname|Susan|Southard}}
|
|Finalist
|
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
! rowspan="2" |2013
|{{Sortname|Beth|Macy}}
|''Factory Man''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{Sortname|Jim|Robbins}}
|
|Finalist
|
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
! rowspan="2" |2014
|{{Sortname|Adrienne|Berard}}
|''When Yellow Was Black: The untold story of the first fight for desegregation in Southern schools''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{Sortname|Yochi J.|Dreazen}}
|
|Finalist
|
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
! rowspan="2" |2015
|{{Sortname|Dan|Egan}}
|''Liquid Desert: Life and Death of the Great Lakes''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{Sortname|Heather Ann|Thompson}}
|
|Finalist
|
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
! rowspan="5" |2016
|{{Sortname|Steve|Luxenberg}}
|''Separate: A Story of Race, Ambition and the Battle That Brought Legal Segregation to America''
|Winner
|<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2016-03-31 |title=Awards: Christophers; Lukas |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2722 |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Shelf Awareness}}</ref>
|-
|{{Sortname|Blaire|Briody}}
|
|Finalist
|<ref name=":4" />
|-
|{{Sortname|Sasha|Issenberg}}
|
| rowspan="3" |Shortlist
|
|-
|{{Sortname|Steve|Oney}}
|
|
|-
|{{Sortname|Meredith|Wadman}}
|
|
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
! rowspan="5" |2017
|{{Sortname|Christopher|Leonard|Christopher Leonard (author)}}
|''[[Kochland]]''
|Winner
|<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2017-03-27 |title=Awards: J. Anthony Lukas; Shaughnessy Cohen |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2965 |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=www.shelf-awareness.com}}</ref>
|-
|{{Sortname|Helen|Thorpe}}
|''The Newcomers''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":5" />
|-
|{{Sortname|Marie|Mutsuki Mockett}}
|
| rowspan="3" |Shortlist
|
|-
|{{Sortname|Eyal|Press}}
|
|
|-
|{{Sortname|Richard Steven|Street}}
|
|
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
! rowspan="5" |2018
|{{Sortname|Chris|Hamby}}
|''Soul Full of Coal Dust: The True Story of An Epic Battle for Justice''
| rowspan="2" |Winner
| rowspan="2" |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-03-28 |title=Announcing the 2018 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Winners and Finalists |url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/announcing-2018-j-anthony-lukas-prize-project-awards-winners-and-finalists |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Columbia Journalism School |archive-date=2018-06-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622085748/https://journalism.columbia.edu/announcing-2018-j-anthony-lukas-prize-project-awards-winners-and-finalists |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2018-03-27 |title=Awards: J. Anthony Lukas; Hans Christian Andersen |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3213 |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Shelf Awareness}}</ref>
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
|{{Sortname|Rachel Louise|Snyder}}
|''No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us''
|-
|{{Sortname|Arthur|Holland Michel}}
|''Eyes in the Sky''
| rowspan="3" |Shortlist
| rowspan="3" |<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2018-02-23 |title=Awards: Lukas and Lynton; International Arabic Fiction |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3191 |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Shelf Awareness}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-03-28 |title=Announcing the 2018 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Shortlist |url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/announcing-2018-j-anthony-lukas-prize-project-awards-shortlist |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Columbia Journalism School}}</ref>
|-
|{{Sortname|Katherine E.|Standefer}}
|''Lightning Flowers''
|-
|{{Sortname|Susan|Vinocour}}
|''Nobody's Child: A Tragedy, a Trial, and the History of the Insanity Defense''
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
! rowspan="5" |2019
|{{Sortname|Maurice|Chammah}}
|''Let the Lord Sort Them: Texas and the Death Penalty's Rise and Fall in America''
| rowspan="2" |Winner
| rowspan="2" |<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2019-03-20 |title=Awards: J. Anthony Lukas Winners; CILIP Carnegie, Kate Greenaway Shortlists |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3455 |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Shelf Awareness}}</ref>
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
|{{Sortname|Steven|Dudley}}
|''Mara: The Making of the MS13''
|-
|{{Sortname|Amelia|Pang}}
|''Made in China: How an Engineer Ended Up in a Chinese Gulag Making Products for Kmart''
| rowspan="3" |Shortlist
| rowspan="3" |<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2019-02-26 |title=Awards: Lukas Shortlist |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3439 |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Shelf Awareness}}</ref>
|-
|{{Sortname|Lauren|Sandler}}
|''This Is All I Got: One Woman’s Desperate Year in the New Gilded Age''
|-
|{{Sortname|Sarah|Schulman}}
|''Let the Record Show: ACT UP and the Enduring Relationship of AIDS''
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
! rowspan="5" |2020
|{{Sortname|Bartow J.|Elmore}}
|''Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and the Future of Food''
| rowspan="2" |Winner
| rowspan="2" |<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |last2= |first2= |date=2020-03-18 |title=Awards: Lukas Prize Project, Wingate Literary Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3698 |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Shelf Awareness}}</ref>
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
|{{Sortname|Shahan|Mufti}}
|''American Caliph: The True Story of the Hanafi Siege, America’s First Homegrown Islamic Terror Attack''
|-
|{{Sortname|Michelle|Nijhuis}}
|''Beloved Beasts: The Story of Conservation and the Fight to Protect Life on Earth''
| rowspan="3" |Shortlist
| rowspan="3" |<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2020-02-26 |title=Awards: Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Winners; Lukas Prizes Shortlists |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3683 |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Shelf Awareness}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Schaub |first=Michael |date=2020-02-25 |title=J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Shortlist Revealed |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/j-anthony-lukas-book-prize-shortlist-revealed/ |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{Sortname|Sarah|Schulman}}
|''Let the Record Show: A Political History of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, ACT UP, NY 1987-1993''
|-
|{{Sortname|Lawrence|Tabak}}
|''Foxconned: How the Mindless Pursuit of Good Jobs Destroys Homes, Wastes Billions and Enriches the Few''
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
! rowspan="5" |2021
|{{Sortname|Emily|Dufton}}
|''Addiction, Inc.: How the Corporate Takeover of America’s Treatment Industry Created a Profitable Epidemic''
| rowspan="2" |Winner
| rowspan="2" |<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2021-03-24 |title=Awards: Publishing Triangle; Lukas; Canadian Picture Book |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3949 |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Shelf Awareness}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Schaub |first=Michael |date=2021-03-24 |title=Winners of J. Anthony Lukas Prizes Are Announced |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/winners-of-j-anthony-lukas-prizes-are-announced/ |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}</ref>
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
|{{Sortname|Casey|Parks}}
|''[[Diary of a Misfit]]''
|-
|{{Sortname|David|Dennis Jr.}}
|''The Movement Made Us''
| rowspan="3" |Shortlist
| rowspan="3" |<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2021-02-25 |title=Awards: Montana Book Winner; Walter Scott Historical Fiction Longlist; Lukas Shortlists |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3930 |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Shelf Awareness}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Schaub |first=Michael |date=2021-02-25 |title=J. Anthony Lukas Prize Shortlists Are Revealed |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/j-anthony-lukas-prize-shortlists-are-revealed/ |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{Sortname|Channing Gerard|Joseph}}
|''House of Swann: Where Slaves Became Queens — and Changed the World''
|-
|{{Sortname|Elizabeth|Rush}}
|''The Mother of All Things: On Climate Change, the Stories We Tell, and a Journey to the Edge of Antarctica''
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
! rowspan="5" |2022
|{{Sortname|Roxanna|Asgarian}}
|''We Were Once a Family: The Hart Murder-Suicide and the System Failing Our Kids''
| rowspan="2" |Winner
| rowspan="2" |<ref>{{Cite news |last=The Associated Press |date=2022-03-23 |title='Invisible Child' is among winners of Lukas book prizes |language=en-CA |work=The Toronto Star |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2022/03/23/invisible-child-is-among-winners-of-lukas-book-prizes.html |access-date=2022-03-24 |issn=0319-0781}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Caplan |first=Walker |date=2022-03-22 |title=Here are this year's winners of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards. |url=https://lithub.com/here-are-this-years-winners-of-the-j-anthony-lukas-prize-project-awards/ |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Literary Hub |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Schaub |first=Michael |date=2022-03-24 |title=Winners of the 2022 Lukas Prizes Revealed |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/winners-of-the-2022-lukas-prizes-revealed/ |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}</ref>
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
|{{Sortname|May|Jeong}}
|''The Life: Sex, Work, and Love in America''
|-
|{{Sortname|Robert|Fieseler}}
|''American Scare: A Cold War in the Sunshine State''
| rowspan="3" |Finalist
| rowspan="3" |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-03-23 |title=Winners and finalists of the 2022 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards announced |url=https://nieman.harvard.edu/news/2022/03/winners-and-finalists-of-the-2022-j-anthony-lukas-prize-project-awards-announced/ |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Nieman Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Schaub |first=Michael |date=2022-02-24 |title=The Lukas Prize Project Reveals Shortlists |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/the-lukas-prize-project-reveals-shortlists/ |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2022-02-24 |title=Awards: Lionel Gelber, Lukas Shortlists |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4176 |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Shelf Awareness}}</ref>
|-
|{{Sortname|Benjamin|Herold}}
|''Disillusioned: How the Suburbs and Their Schools Undermine The American Dream''
|-
|{{Sortname|Suki|Kim}}
|''The Prince and the Revolutionary: Children of War''
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
! rowspan="5" |2023
|{{Sortname|Jesselyn|Cook}}
|''The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family''
| rowspan="2" |Winner
| rowspan="2" |<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |title=The J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards - Past Winners |url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/lukas#!#cu_accordion_item-2271}}</ref>
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
|{{Sortname|Mike|Hixenbaugh}}
|''Uncivil: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New Battle for America's Schools''
|-
|{{Sortname|Rebecca|Kelliher}}
|
| rowspan="3" |Shortlist
| rowspan="3" |<ref name=":6" />
|-
|{{Sortname|Megan|Kimble}}
|
|-
|{{Sortname|Jessica|Pishko}}
|
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
! rowspan="2" |2024
|{{Sortname|Lorraine|Boissoneault}}
| ''Body Weather: Notes on Illness in the Anthropocene''
| rowspan="2" |Winner
| rowspan="2" |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-03-19 |title=Dashka Slater, Ned Blackhawk, Lorraine Boissoneault, Alice Driver Named Winners of the 2024 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards |url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/news/lukas-prize-winners-2024 |website=Columbia Journalism School}}</ref>
|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black
|[[Alice Driver (writer)|Alice Driver]]
|''The Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company''
|}
== See also ==
* [[J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize]]
* [[The Mark Lynton History Prize|Mark Lynton History Prize]]
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:English-language literary awards]]
[[Category:Awards established in 1999]]
[[Category:20th-century literary awards]]
[[Category:21st-century literary awards]]