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J. Anthony Lukas

Age: 64
writer

The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer is best known for his widely praised book about desegregation in Boston, Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families. Lukas was a reporter for the New York Times but quit to pursue book and magazine writing.

Born: 1933?
Died: June 5, 1997

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