Caroline Elkins

Caroline Elkins is an American historian and author who is a Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for her first book. Britain's Gulag is her Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the British detention camps in Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising — a devastating, meticulously researched account of colonial violence that challenged Britain's image of its imperial past. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers a devastating, Pulitzer Prize-winning account of British colonial violence — essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the reality of empire.