J. Anthony Lukas (25 April, 1993 – 5 June, 1997) was an American journalist, known for his book Common Ground, a study of race relations, class conflict and busing to schools in Boston.
- Jay Anthony Lukas was born in White Plains, NY. His mother, Elizabeth, was an actress, sister to the Academy Award winning actor Paul Lukas. His younger brother, Christopher Lukas, was a TV producer.
- Mr. Lukas graduated from Harvard after working at the Harvard Crimson. Afterwards, he attended the University of Berlin.
- J. Anthony Lukas served in the US Army in Japan writer for the Voice of the United Nation Command.
- He started his journalism career at the Baltimore Sun before moving to the New York Times.
- In 1968 he won his first Pulitzer Prize in the category of “Local Investigative Specialized Reporting”, which sadly doesn’t exist anymore.
- His second Pulitzer General nonfiction was earned in 1977, two decades later. In the same year he won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and other awards for political books.
- He moved around a lot after working at the Time for 9 years. He did, however, cover the Watergate scandal, correctly guessing the identity of the secret informant known as Deep Throat. His articles were a basis for his book Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years (1976).
- Mr. Lukas quit his career as a report to pursue writing books and magazines. His intense known fiction works made him well known.
- The Lukas Prize Project, administered by Colombia University and the Neiman Foundation at Harvard is given to writers of American nonfiction. The project hosts three annual events.
- in the late 1980s J. Anthony Lukas was diagnosed with depression. He committed suicide in 1997.
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J. Anthony Lukas, 64, an Author, Is Dead | The New York Times
