The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison

Name: The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
ISBN: 9781541601192

by Hugh Ryan

Stonewall Book · 2023 · Winner

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Bold Type BooksMay 17, 2022History NonfictionISBN 9781541601192

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Stonewall Book Award	2023	Winner	“Nonfiction co-winner”

About This Book

Hugh Ryan's history of the Greenwich Village Women's House of Detention — destroyed in 1974 — recovers the stories of the LGBTQ women and gender-nonconforming people who were imprisoned there. Co-winner of the Stonewall Book Award for Nonfiction.

About the Author

Hugh RyanAmerican

Hugh Ryan is an American historian and non-fiction writer specializing in LGBT history of New York City, with notable works including The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison (2022), winner of the 2023 Stonewall Book Award, and When Brooklyn Was Queer (2019), a New York Times Editor's Choice and Lambda Literary Award finalist. He is also a curator who founded the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History and has received the 2020 Allan Berube Prize from the American Historical Association. Ryan graduated from Cornell University in 2000 and earned an MFA from Bennington College in 2009.