Imitated but never surpassed since its publication in 1985, it stands on Lukas's extraordinary talents as a reporter and writer and his subtle grasp of a complex conflict over racial integration.
Anthony Lukas's Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families has been rightly praised as the work of a reporter who fused journalism and history to produce one of the best books ever written about an American city. In 1986, he earned a second Pulitzer for his book about the racial turmoil surrounding school busing in Boston, entitled “Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families.J. Lukas, the awards’ namesake, served as associate managing editor of The Crimson, and returned to Harvard as a Nieman Fellow in 1969 after winning his first Pulitzer Prize for “The Two Worlds of Linda Fitzpatrick,” an article in The New York Times about the life and death of an affluent teenager involved in the 1960s hippie and drug culture. “Without it, I’m not sure what I would be doing.” “This award literally buys me several months of intensive reporting and writing,” he said. Schuppe said yesterday that dividing his time between a paying job and the in-person reporting that his book requires has been difficult. Schuppe is working on a nonfiction narrative entitled “Ghetto Ball: A Coach, His Team, and the Struggle of an American City,” which focuses on a Little League baseball team in inner-city Newark coached by a paraplegic former drug dealer. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, which provides a $30,000 award to help the recipient complete a nonfiction project.
Journalist Jonathan Schuppe was named the winner of the J. Davidson for his book “The Greeks and Greek Love: A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient World,” which explores homoeroticism in ancient Greece.įinkel and Davidson will each receive a $10,000 prize. The Mark Lynton History Prize will be bestowed upon James N. Anthony Lukas ’55-for “The Good Soliders,” a book on a battalion of infantry soldiers in the Iraq war, at a ceremony at the Nieman Foundation on May 4, Anthony Lukas Book Prize-named for two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner J. Three winners of this year’s Lukas Prize Project Awards were recognized yesterday for their outstanding work in nonfiction writing, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism announced yesterday.ĭavid L.
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