NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Beverly Gage's J. Edgar Hoover biography 鈥淕-Man,鈥� Robert Samuels' and Toluse Olorunnipa's 鈥淗is Name is George Floyd鈥� and Linda Villarosa's study of racism and its effects, 鈥淯nder the Skin,鈥� are among the finalists for awards handed out by the Lukas Prize Project.
The project was established in 1998 and named for the late author and investigative journalist J. Anthony Lukas. The finalists were announced Wednesday by the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Winners will be announced March 21.
Villarosa and Samuels and Olorunnipa are nominees for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, a $10,000 award for an outstanding 鈥渨ork of narrative nonfiction on a topic of American political or social concern.鈥� The other finalists are Rachel Aviv's 鈥淪trangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us,鈥� Lyndsie Bourgon's 鈥淭ree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America鈥檚 Woods鈥� and Jack Lowery's 鈥淚t Was Vulgar & It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic.鈥�
Gage's book is a nominee for the $10,000 Mark Lynton History Prize, along with Kerri K. Greenidge's 鈥淭he Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family,鈥� Pekka H盲m盲l盲inen's 鈥淚ndigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America,鈥� Kelly Lytle Hern谩ndez's 鈥淏ad Mexicans: Race, Empire, & Revolution in the Borderlands鈥� and Deborah Cohen's 鈥淟ast Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War.鈥�
The Lynton prize is named for the late author and businessman, whose family has sponsored the project.
The project also will award two $25,000 prizes for outstanding works in progress. The finalists are Jesselyn Cook's 鈥淭he Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family,鈥� Mike Hixenbaugh's 鈥淯ncivil: One Town鈥檚 Fight over Race and Identity, and the New Battle for America鈥檚 Schools,鈥� Rebecca Kelliher's 鈥淕uerrilla Pills: The Abortion Drug Underground,鈥� Megan Kimble's 鈥淐ity Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America鈥檚 Highways鈥� and Jessica Pishko's 鈥淭he Highest Law in the Land: How the Growing Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy.鈥�
Previous prize winners include Robert Caro, Isabel Wilkerson and Jill Lepore.
The Associated Press
