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As a student journalist, Lukas investigated McCarthyism at Harvard and later served as the associate managing editor of The Crimson.
Lukas, one of just a handful of writers to win the Pulitzer Prize twice, began his life as a journalist while still a Harvard undergraduate.
In 1968, while working for the New York Times, Lukas won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting, after he chronicled the life and murder of Linda Fitzpatrick, an affluent Connecticut teenager caught up in the hippie drug culture of the 1960s.
Fifteen years later, Lukas won a second Pulitzer for General Nonfiction for his book “Common Ground,” which examined the desegregation of Boston’s school system. The book described the events between Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination in 1968...
In addition to his dedicated work at the New York Times, Lukas ventured back into Cambridge throughout his career. He was a fellow at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism in 1968-69, and then became a fellow at the Institute of Politics in 1976-77 and an...