J.'s Fans (2)

J. Anthony Lukas

Author profile

born

April 25, 1933 in White Plains, New York, The United States

died

June 05, 1997

gender

male

genre

Nonfiction, History, Journalism

About this author

edit data

Jay Anthony Lukas was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, probably best known for his 1985 book Common Ground : A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families a study of race relations and school busing in Boston, Massachusetts in the mid - 1970's.

Lukas began his professional journalism career at the Baltimore Sun, then moved to The New York Times. He stayed at the ''Times'' for nine years, working as a roving reporter, and serving at the Washington, New York, and United Nations bureaus, and overseas in Ceylon, India, Japan, Pakistan, South Africa, and Zaire. After working at the New York Times Magazine for a short time in the 1970s, Lukas quit reporting to pursue a career in book and magazine writing,

In 1997, whil...more

combine editions
Books by J. Anthony Lukas

Average rating: 4.34 · 692 ratings · 111 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families 4.39 avg rating — 531 ratings — published 1985 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America 4.21 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years by J. Anthony Lukas, Joan Hoff (Contribution by) 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1973 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Don't Shoot, We Are Your Children! 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1971	My rating:
	The Barnyard Epithet & Other Obscenities: Notes on the Chicago Conspiracy Trial 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1970	My rating: