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How to Survive a Plague

by David France

Baillie Gifford Prize · 2017 · WinnerStonewall Book Award · 2017 · Winner
KnopfnonfictionISBN 9780307700636

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Baillie Gifford Prize2017Winner
Stonewall Book Award2017Winner

About This Book

A detailed account of ACT UP and the AIDS activist movement's decade-long campaign to accelerate drug development and access during the epidemic. Based on France's documentary film; winner of the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize.

About the Author

David FranceAmerican

David France is an American journalist, filmmaker, and author. His book How to Survive a Plague won the Baillie Gifford Prize in 2017 and documents the AIDS activist movement ACT UP and its campaign for treatment.

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