Rick Atkinson

Writer

Rick Atkinson is the Number One New York Times bestselling author of seven previous works of history, including The Long Gray Line, the Liberation Trilogy, and The British Are Coming, the first volume of the Revolution Trilogy. He has won numerous awards, including the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting; the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for public service, awarded to The Post for a series of investigative articles directed and edited by Atkinson on shootings by the District of Columbia police department; the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for history; and the 1989 George Polk Award for national reporting.

Rick's new book, The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 will be published on April 29, 2025.

Other books by Rick Atkinson
The Long Gray Line
Crusade
An Army at Dawn
In the Company of Soldiers
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944,