Leon Litwack

Leon Frank Litwack (December 2, 1929 – August 5, 2021) was an American historian. His works focused on slavery and the Reconstruction Era of the United States. He won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for History. His best known written work was the 1979 book "". Litwack was born in Santa Barbara, California.
Litwack died on August 5, 2021 in Berkeley, California of bladder cancer, aged 91.