'Ellsworth recounts how survivors, researchers, and historians following the 1986 publication of his seminal book on the massacre served as essential catalysts in breaking long held silences around an American tragedy with the aim of modeling what racial healing could look like.' Oprah Daily, Best Books to Pick Up in May 2021
Scott Ellsworth is an award-winning author and professor of history at the University of Michigan. His most recent book, The World Beneath Their Feet (John Murray, 2020) - described as 'gripping' by the Sunday Times - is the story of the international race to conquer the Himalayas.