Historian and author Heather Ann Thompson received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in History for Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy. Based on more than a decade of archival research and interviews, the book offers a definitive account of the 1971 Attica prison uprising, its violent suppression, and the decades-long fight for justice that followed.
Heather Ann Thompson
2017, Pulitzer Prize for History for Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy