2010 Lukas Prize 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.