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
William Bolcom
1988, Music: 12 New Etudes for Piano
Composer and pianist William Bolcom received the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Music for 12 New Etudes for Piano, a virtuosic and stylistically diverse set of solo pieces completed between 1977 and 1986. Written as a sequel to his earlier 12 Etudes for Piano (1959–66), the New Etudes explore a wide range of pianistic techniques and musical idioms, blending classical tradition with jazz, ragtime, and modernist influences.