journalist and military historian Cornelius Ryan published by Library of America in May 2019. In May 2019, the first book in the Revolution Trilogy, The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777, was published by Henry Holt and edited, as all of Atkinson's books have been, by John Sterling. The New York Times selected The British Are Coming for its 100 Notable Books of 2019. It won the 2020 George Washington Book Prize. Awards and honors 1982 Pulitzer Prize, National Reporting 1983 Livingston Award for Young Journalists 1989 George Polk Award for National Reporting 1989 John Hancock Award for Excellence in Business Writing, with David Maraniss 1989 Morton Mintz Award for Investigative Reporting 1999 Pulitzer Prize for public service, awarded to The Post for articles on shootings by the District of Columbia police department 2003 Pulitzer Prize in History, An Army at Dawn 2003 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award 2007 Gerald R. Ford Award for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense 2008 American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award 2009 Axel Springer Prize and fellowship, the American Academy, Berlin 2009 John Reagan "Tex" McCrary Award, Congressional Medal of Honor Society 2010 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing 2013 Norwich University, Honorary Doctor of Military History 2013 New York Military Affairs Symposium, lifetime achievement award 2014 Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for lifetime achievement, Society for Military History 2014 Society of Midland Authors, best adult nonfiction book of the year 2015 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award 2019 Vincent J. Dooley Distinguished Fellow, honor bestowed by the Georgia Historical Society 2020 George Washington Book Prize The British Are Coming, for the year's best work on the American founding era 2020 New-York Historical Society Barbara and David Zalaznick Prize in American History, The British Are Coming, for the year's best work in American history of biography 2020 Daughters of the American Revolution Excellence in American History Book Award for 2020, The British Are Coming 2020 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award, The British Are Coming Bibliography Books (The Liberation Trilogy Vol. 1) (2003 Pulitzer Prize for History) (The Liberation Trilogy Vol. 2) (The Liberation Trilogy Vol. 3) (The Revolution Trilogy Vol. 1) Young Readers Adaptations (The Young Readers Adaptation of The Guns of Last Light) (The Young Readers Adaptation of The Guns at Last Light) The British Are Coming (Young Readers Edition). New York: