Heather Ann Thompson

Heather Ann Thompson is an American historian, author and professor from Detroit, Michigan. She won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for History and the 2016 Bancroft Prize, among other honors, for her book Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy, which was also a finalist for the Cundill Prize in History, the National Book Award and the LA Times Book Award. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022 and has been named a distinguished lecturer by the Organization of American Historians. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/