About J. Anthony Lukas

J. Anthony Lukas

The winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, J. Anthony Lukas published five epic books, each of which examined a critical fault line in America's social and political landscape by examining individual lives caught up in the havoc of change. A former foreign and national correspondent for The New York Times, Lukas tackled the country's generational conflict in his first book Don't Shoot: We Are Your Children; examined the impact of school desegregation in Common Ground, and told a sweeping tale of class conflict at the turn of the century in Big Trouble, completed just before his death in 1997.