Twelve books for adults and young people will be celebrated May 19 at the 67th annual Christopher Awards, which are presented to authors and illustrators--as well as writers, producers and directors--whose work "affirms the highest values of the human spirit." This year's winning titles are:
Adults
The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, a Play and the City that Would not Be Broken by Wendell Pierce's memoir (Riverhead)
One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York by Arthur Browne (Beacon).
Under the Same Sky: From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America by Joseph Kim with Stephan Talty (HMH)
Five Years in Heaven: The Unlikely Friendship that Answered Life's Greatest Questions by John Schlimm (Image Books)
The Gift of Caring: Saving Our Parents from the Perils of Modern Healthcare by Marcy Cottrell Houle MS & Elizabeth Eckstrom MD, MPH (Taylor Trade Publishing)
Tough as They Come by Travis Mills, with Marcus Brotherton (Convergent Books)
Young People
One Good Deed by Terri Fields, illustrated by Deborah Melmon (Preschool & up, Kar-Ben Publishing).
An Invisible Thread Christmas Story by Laura Schroff & Alex Tresniowski, illustrated by Barry Root (Kindergarten & up, Little Simon)
Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton by Don Tate (ages 6 & up, Peachtree Publishers)
Katie's Cabbage by Katie Stagliano with Michelle H. Martin, illustrated by Karen Heid (8 & up, Young Palmetto Books/University of South Carolina Press)
Firefly Hollow by Alison McGhee, illustrated by Christopher Denise (10 & up, Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
Paper Hearts by Meg Wiviott (YA, Margaret K. McElderry Books/S&S).
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The winners and finalists of the 2016 Lukas Prize Project Awards, sponsored by the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, are:
The J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize:
Winner: Susan Southard, for Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War (Viking Penguin)
Finalist: Dale Russakoff, for The Prize: Who's in Charge of America's Schools? (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Mark Lynton History Prize:
Winner: Nikolaus Wachsmann, for KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Finalist: Timothy Snyder, for Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (Tim Duggan Books)
The J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award:
Winner: Steve Luxenberg, for Separate: A Story of Race, Ambition and the Battle That Brought Legal Segregation to America (Norton)
Finalist: Blaire Briody, for The New Wild West: Black Gold, Fracking, and Life in a North Dakota Boomtown (St. Martin's Press)
The awards will be presented to the winners and finalists at a ceremony on Tuesday, May 10, at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.