Victor Luckerson

Victor Luckerson is an American journalist and author. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he has reported on technology, race, and American history. Before joining The New Yorker, he worked for Time magazine covering the technology industry. His journalism has won multiple awards including the National Magazine Award. His debut book Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street (2023) is a sweeping narrative history of Greenwood, the prosperous Black neighbourhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that was destroyed in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre—one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history—and rebuilt by its survivors and their descendants. The book won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction in 2024 and was widely praised for its meticulous research, its narrative power, and its contribution to a more complete understanding of American history. Luckerson is the founder of Run It Back, a newsletter on Greenwood and the Tulsa Race Massacre. He lives in New York City.