MAMARONECK: Nicole Eustace Receives Pulitzer Prize

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Winners of the coveted Pulitzer Prize – awarded for excellence in journalism and the arts in the United States were announced.

PRESS RELEASE: Pulitzer Prize winner Nicole Eustace, a professor of history at NYU, who received a Pulitzer Prize in History.

MAMARONECH, NY: Nicole Eustace's book, Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America, is described as "a gripping account of Indigenous justice in early America, and how the aftermath of a settler's murder led to the oldest continuously recognized treaty in the United States."

QUOTE: Ms. Eustace reacted by saying "I am very surprised and grateful to have been announced as a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history. I hope that this award for the book will help bring attention to the issues of justice that it raises."

In making the award, the Pulitzer Prize Board called Covered with Night "a necessary work of historical reclamation, it ultimately revives a lost vision of crime and punishment that reverberates down into our own time."

Covered with Night was also a 2021 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction and chosen one of the Best Books of the Year by TIME, Smithsonian, Boston Globe, and Kirkus Reviews.

Nicole Eustace lives in the Town of Mamaroneck with her husband, Dr. James M. Klancnik, Jr. and their two sons.

A more detailed description of the book may be found here:

https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/nicole-eustace.