Mark Lynton History Prize

Mark Lynton History Prize

The Mark Lynton History Prize is an annual award in the amount of $10,000 given to a book "of history, on any subject, that best combines intellectual or scholarly distinction with felicity of expression".[1] The prize is given by the Nieman Foundation and by the Columbia University School of Journalism.[1][2]

The sponsor of the prize is Mark Lynton, a refugee from Nazi Germany, WWII officer, automobile industry executive, and author of the memoir Accidental Journey: A Cambridge Internee's Memoir of World War II.[3]

Winners

  • 1999 - Adam Hochschild for King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed. Terror. and Heroism in Colonial Africa
  • 2000 - John W. Dower for Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
  • 2001 - Fred Anderson for Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
  • 2002 - Mark Roseman for A Past in Hiding: Memory and Survival in Nazi Germany
  • 2003 - Suzannah Lessard for Mapping the New World: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Sprawl
  • 2004 - Rebecca Solnit for River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
  • 2005 - Richard Steven Street for Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913
  • 2006 - Megan Marshall for The Peabody Sisters: Three Women who Ignited American Romanticism
  • 2007 - James T. Campbell for Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005
  • 2008 - Peter Silver for Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America
  • 2009 - Timothy Brook for Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
  • 2010 - James Davidson for The Greeks and Greek Love: A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient World
  • 2011 - Isabel Wilkerson for The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

References

  1. ^ a b "J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project". Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/NiemanFoundation/Awards/AwardsAtAGlance/JAnthonyLukasPrizeProject.aspx. Retrieved 16 March 2011. 
  2. ^ The Lukas Prize Project - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
  3. ^ "A Heart, A Brain, and a Pair of Shoes," by Samuel G. Freedman, Salon, June 12, 1997

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