NEW YORK 鈥� Books about slavery, immigration and drug treatment are among this year's winners of awards presented by the J. Anthony Lukas Project.
Jessica Goudeau's 鈥淎fter the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America鈥� won the Lukas Book Prize, a $10,000
The Mark Lynton History Prize, also worth $10,000, was given to William G. Thomas III for 鈥淎 Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation鈥檚 Founding to the Civil War.鈥�
On Wednesday, the Lukas project also announced two work-in-progress awards, each with a $25,000 cash prize to help with the book's completion: Emily Dufton, for 鈥淎ddiction, Inc.: How the Corporate Takeover of America鈥檚 Treatment Industry Created a Profitable Epidemic鈥� and Casey Parks, for 鈥淒iary Of a Misfit."
The Lukas project, based at Columbia University, is named for the late investigative reporter and author. The awards were established in 1998 and have previously been given to Robert Caro, Isabel Wilkerson and Jill Lepore among others.
The Associated Press
