Awards & Winners

J. Anthony Lukas

Date of Birth 25-April-1933
Place of Birth White Plains
(Westchester County, New York)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Jay Anthony Lukas, J. Anthony Lucas
Profession Journalist, Author
Jay Anthony Lukas, or J. Anthony Lucas, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author, probably best known for his 1985 book Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families. Common Ground is a classic study of race relations and school busing in Boston, Massachusetts, as seen through the eyes of three families: one upper-middle-class white, one working-class white, and one African-American.

Awards by J. Anthony Lukas

Check all the awards nominated and won by J. Anthony Lukas.

1998


Spur Award for Best Nonfiction Contemporary
Honored for : Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America

Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for History Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America

1986


Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Honored for : Common Ground

Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction Common Ground

1985


National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction
Honored for : Common Ground
National Book Award for Nonfiction
Honored for : Common Ground

Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Nonfiction Common Ground

1968


Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
([Local Investigative Specialized Reporting] For the social document he wrote in his investigation of the life and the murder of Linda Fitzpatrick.)