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April 19, 2022

Author Sues to Overturn New York Prison Officials' Ban on Book About Attica 
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In other book news, the historian Heather Ann Thompson is suing New York
state prison authorities for banning her book about the deadly 1971
Attica prison rebellion. Thompson's book, "Blood in the Water," won the
Pulitzer Prize in 2017. The book is now banned inside Attica and almost
a dozen other New York state prisons.


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