Christopher Kochland: Prize and Lukas

christopher kochland: Tyler Anbinder's City of Dream The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York received the 10,000 Mark Lynton History Prize, according to The Chronicle Herald. And Christopher Leonard's Kochland won the 25,000 Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, which helps authors finish a significant work. Prize officials told The Associated Press on Monday that Gary Younge's Another Day in the Death of America A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives won the 10,000 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for combining literary excellence and social concern. Leonard's book is under contract with Simon & Schuster. Previous winners of Lukas prizes, established in 1998, include Robert Caro, Isabel Wilkerson and Lawrence Wright. All three awards are presented by the Lukas Prize Project, named for the late author and investigative journalist and co-administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.