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Jay Anthony Lukas

ジェイ・アンソニー・ルーカス

Jei Ansonī Rukasu

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1933-04-25 （New York City）
Died
1997-06-05 （New York City (Upper West Side, Manhattan)） age 64
Nationality
American
Languages
English
Residence History
White Plains, New York → Putney School, Vermont → New York City

Career

Occupations
Journalist, Author
Active Years
1955-1997
Affiliations
The Baltimore Sun, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly

Education

Putney School
General
Period: 1941頃-1951
Country: United States
Enrolled after mother's suicide
Harvard University
Faculty of Arts and Sciences / History
Degree: BA
Period: 1951-1955
Year of Graduation: 1955
Country: United States
Graduated magna cum laude, worked at Harvard Crimson
Free University of Berlin
General
Period: 1955-1956
Country: West Germany
Adenauer Fellow

Awards

George Polk Award
1967
Work: Local Reporting
Category: Local Reporting
Organization: Long Island University
Result: 受賞
Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting
1968
Work: The Two Worlds of Linda Fitzpatrick
Category: Local Investigative Specialized Reporting
Organization: Columbia University
Result: 受賞
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
1986
Work: Common Ground
Category: General Nonfiction
Organization: Columbia University
Result: 受賞
National Book Award for Nonfiction
1985
Work: Common Ground
Category: Nonfiction
Organization: National Book Foundation
Result: 受賞
National Book Critics Circle Award
1986
Work: Common Ground
Organization: National Book Critics Circle
Result: 受賞
Robert F. Kennedy Center Book Award
1986
Work: Common Ground
Organization: Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families

1985 Nonfiction

A study of race relations, class conflict, and school busing in Boston, Massachusetts, through the eyes of three families: one upper-middle-class white, one working-class white, and one working-class African-American.

Race relationsClass conflictSchool busing

Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America

1997 Nonfiction

Posthumously published history of a struggle between unions and mining company in Idaho after the assassination of former governor Frank Steunenberg.

Labor strugglesAssassinationAmerican history

Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years

1976 Nonfiction

Book on Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal, correctly guessing Mark Felt as Deep Throat.

Watergate scandalPolitical scandal

Don't Shoot, We Are Your Children!

1971 Nonfiction

Collection of stories about members of the 1960s counterculture.

CountercultureGeneration gap

Bibliography

  • The Two Worlds of Linda Fitzpatrick (1967, NYT article)
  • The Barnyard Epithet and Other Obscenities (1970)
  • Don't Shoot, We Are Your Children! (1971)
  • After the Pentagon Papers (1971, NYT)
  • Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years (1976)
  • Common Ground (1985)
  • Big Trouble (1997)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Intensely researched nonfictionInvestigative journalism
Recurring Motifs
Social conflictsDark underbelly of American society

Health

  • Depression
    1980年代後半-1997
    Led to suicide. Influenced by mother's suicide and father's tuberculosis.

Legacy

Pulitzer Prize winner twice, renowned for Common Ground. The Lukas Prize Project named after him supports nonfiction writers.

In Popular Culture

  • Lukas Prize Project

Quotes

  • All writers are, to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.
    Source: Interview after Common Ground publication (1985)

Trivia

  • Mother Elizabeth Lukas was an actress who committed suicide.
  • Uncle Paul Lukas was an Academy Award-winning actor.
  • Brother Christopher Lukas is a TV producer and writer.
  • Served in US Army in Japan, wrote for Voice of the United Nations Command.
  • Co-founder of MORE magazine.