Representing Jefferson County will be on television. [ applause ] my job tonight is to introduce the two people on the podium who will be conducting this conversation. Jane henderson is the book editor at the st. Louis post dispatch. She grew up in st. Louis and graduated from the university of missouri columbia with degrees in journalism and english literature. She cut short her grad student work to go to work as a copy editor for the st. Louis globe democrat in the mid1980s. After three years in the newsroom in connecticut, she returned to st. Louis and has been an editor and writer with the post dispatch features department for 30 years. She assigns and edits book reviews choosing from 300 or so new books each week. Shes written stories about book trends and interviewed many authors. Tonight she adds to that and she will be having a conversation with Caroline Fraser. Caroline fraser is the editor of the library of america edition of Laura Ingalls wilder, the little house books and t
Lynton history prize, mark lynton history prize and the j. Anthony prize, the work in progress prizes are administered jointly by Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for journalism at harvard md. And i want to introduce our host for this evening. Thats ann marie lipinski, Pulitzer Prize winning former editor of the chicago tribune, and the curator here of the Nieman Foundation. Weve got a good and very stimulating evening ahead. So ann marie. Were killing the music. Ive done it. Thats it. Its my folks that jazz. Its called the jazz lounge bar. In case anyones interested interested. Thank you, jonathan, and welcome everyone to the presentation of the j. Anthony lucas prize project honoring the very best of american Nonfiction Book writing in celebrating gifted writer winners this evening, we remember Pulitzer Prize winning journalist j. Anthony lucas, a 1969 nieman fellow, and the late mark linton, a history enthusiast and expert and Senior Executive at the firm Hunter
So they realized okay, we are not going to win this way so what do you do then . Well, the kochs are very smart. They are terrific businessmen, both graduates of mit and they are engineers and they went back to thedrawing board to figure out the new model. And in the years after that, soon after that they began to draw up a blueprint for how you could do sort of an Assembly Line to change american politics, even if you couldnt win the popular vote to go there, they follow the footsteps of a couple other major multimillionaires and billionaires on the right who were also funding this project and they figured out that from their standpoint politicians are just actors who are spouting lines andthe key to changing america is to write the script. How do you get to write the script . Well, you have to change kind of the whole way that elite opinion is formed in the country. There happened to have been right around the same time, a little bit earlier, a paper that was the blueprint for all of
Founding crew that set up this this program. Tony lucas was a wonderful nonfiction writer and reporter who was not only great at what he did, but also cared a lot about the field. This kind of work is not part of mass culture shall we say but its a Distinct Community of people who really care about it and are devoted to it and help and support each other and it was very important to tony to be part of that community he put on with me as his sort of deputy a big conference on nonfiction writing at new York State Writers Institute in albany back in 91 or 92 called telling the truth at the time of his death. He was the president of the Authors Guild he just, you know did as much as he could possibly do not just for his own work, but for other people who do this work, and and i think he would be really pleased to see what this Program Named after him has become i never got to know mark linton because he had died i think by the time we started this program i got to know his widow and his hi
1997. I guess 25 years ago part of the founding crew that set up this this program. Tony lucas was a wonderful nonfiction writer and reporter who was not only great at what he did, but also cared a lot about the field. This kind of work is not part of mass culture shall we say but its a Distinct Community of people who really care about it and are devoted to it and help and support each other and it was very important to tony to be part of that community he put on with me as his sort of deputy a big conference on nonfiction writing at new York State Writers Institute in albany back in 91 or 92 called telling the truth at the time of his death. He was the president of the Authors Guild he just, you know did as much as he could possibly do not just for his own work, but for other people who do this work, and and i think he would be really pleased to see what this Program Named after him has become i never got to know mark linton because he had died i think by the time we started this pro