Prize Winners, 2010
Learn more about the winners of the 2010 Lukas Prize Project Awards
J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
David Finkel for "The Good Soldiers: A Remarkable Report from the Front Lines of Iraq" (Sarah Crichton Books/ Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
David Finkel is the national enterprise editor of The Washington Post. He was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for his series of stories about U.S.-funded democracy efforts in Yemen. Finkel lives with his wife and two daughters in Silver Spring, Md.
J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Honorable Mention
Patrick Radden Keefe for "The Snakehead: An Epic tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream" (Doubleday)
Patrick Radden Keefe is a fellow at The Century Foundation, a progressive policy think tank, and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Slate, and many other publications. In addition to "The Snakehead," he is the author of "Chatter: Uncovering the Echelon Surveillance Network and the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping" (Random House, 2005). He grew up in Dorchester, Mass. and received his bachelor's degree from Columbia University, masters degrees from Cambridge and the London School of Economics, and a JD from Yale Law School. The recipient of a Marshall Scholarship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Patrick lives with his wife and son in Washington, DC.
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Beryl Satter for "Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America" (Metropolitan Books)
Beryl Satter is the author of “Each Mind a Kingdom” and the chair of the Department of History at Rutgers University in Newark. She was raised in Chicago, Skokie, and Evanston, Ill., and is a graduate of the Harvard Divinity School and the Yale American Studies program. For her then work-in-progress, “Family Properties,” Satter received a J. Anthony Lukas citation in 2004. She also received the 2009 National Jewish Book Award in History and the 2010 Liberty Legacy Award from the Organization of American Historians for "Family Properties." Satter lives in New York City.
Mark Lynton History Prize
James Davidson for "The Greeks and Greek Love: A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient World" (Random House)
James Davidson is a classical scholar and history professor at the University of Warwick in England. He is the author of "Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens" and is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times. He served on the Council for the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies from 2001 to 2004, and has been a member of the Classical Association Journals Board since 2000. He lives in London.
Mark Lynton History Prize Honorable Mention
Jenny Uglow for "A Gambling Man: Charles II's Restoration Game" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Jenny Uglow is an editor at Chatto & Windus and lives in Canterbury, England. Her previous books include "Nature's Engraver," "A Little History of British Gardening," "The Lunar Men," and "Hogarth," all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award
Jonathan Schuppe for "Ghetto Ball: A Coach, His Team, and the Struggle of an American City" (to be published by Henry Holt)
Jonathan Schuppe is a writer and video journalist. He covers Manhattan as a reporter/producer for DNAinfo.com. Until December 2008, he was a staff writer at The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J., where he covered politics, government and inner-city crime. He also shot and edited news videos for the paper's website, NJ.com. He was part of a team of reporters awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for breaking-news coverage of Gov. James E. McGreevey's resignation. In 2008, the University of Colorado and the Denver Press Club honored him with the Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting. He is also the recipient of several state journalism prizes.
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J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award Honorable Mention
David Philipps, for "Lethal Warriors: When the New Band of Brothers Came Home" (to be published by Palgrave Macmillan)
David Philipps is an award-winning journalist based in Colorado Springs. His work as a feature writer and occasional cartoonist for the Colorado Springs Gazette has taken him from remote peaks and canyons in the Rockies to the dusty deserts of Mexico. His articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Enquirer, and Seattle Times, among others, and have won awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists. In 2008, he was given a national first place award for best feature reporting, for his coverage of environmental issues, from the Association of Sunday and Feature Editors. He is a native of Colorado Springs, graduated from Middlebury College in 2000 and received a masters from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2002.
Jurors
J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
Edward Alden
Currently the Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Alden previously served as the Washington bureau chief at the Financial Times. His work, published in a wide range of publications, has been honored by many awards, and his most recent book, "The Closing of the American Border," was a finalist for the 2009 Lukas Book Award.
Ellen Goodman
Ellen Goodman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning commentary appeared weekly in more than 300 newspapers until Jan. 1, 2010 when, much to the dismay of her legions of readers, she wrote her last column. Six collections of her columns have been published over the past three decades. In addition to the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary, her work has won numerous awards, including the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award and the Ernie Pyle Award for Lifetime Achievement from the National Society of Newspaper columnists.
Daniel Okrent
Perhaps best known for having served as the first public editor of The New York Times and for inventing Rotisserie League Baseball, Okrent is the author of five books, including "Great Fortune: the Epic of Rockefeller Center," which was finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in History. He has written for scores of newspapers and magazines, and was the founding editor of New England Monthly. His new book, "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition" will be published this May, 2010.
Mark Lynton History Prize
Laura Shapiro
Award-winning writer Laura Shapiro was at Newsweek for more than 15 years. The author of "Perfection Salad" and "Julia Child," she has written for many other publications, including The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Granta and Gourmet.
Timothy Brook
A distinguished historian and author specializing in the study of China, Timothy Brook was last year’s Lukas Book Prize winner for "Vermeer’s Hat." Brook holds the Shaw Chair of Chinese Studies at the University of Oxford and was appointed as principal and professor at the University of British Columbia's St. John's College. He is also academic director of the Contemporary Tibetan Studies Program at the University of British Columbia's Institute of Asian Research.
Andrew Meier
Author of "Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall" and "The Lost Spy," Andrew Meier is a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He graduated from Oxford University in 1989. In 1996, he was awarded the Alicia Patterson Fellowship to report on the ethnic conflicts in the former Soviet Union. He is a professor at Eugene Lang College, a Moscow correspondent for
J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award
Leslie Garis
Author of the acclaimed "House of Happy Endings," a 2007 New York Times notable book, Leslie Garis writes for many publications, including The New York Times Magazine, where her profiles of such major figures as Rebecca West, Harold Pinter, Joan Didion and Susan Sontag have generated ongoing discussion and are frequently quoted.
Robin Marantz Henig
A contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, Robin Henig is the author of nine books, including "Pandora’s Baby," which won the Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors in 2005, and "The Monk in The Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel," which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2001.
Craig Unger
Author of the New York Times bestseller, "House of Bush, House of Saud," and three other notable works of investigative reporting, Craig Unger has written for a wide number of newspapers and magazines, including the New Yorker, New York Magazine and Vanity Fair, where he is now a contributing editor. In addition, he has served as deputy editor of the New York Observer, and editor in chief of Boston Magazine, which under his aegis won first prize from the City and Regional Magazine Awards as the best city or regional magazine in the country.