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  For Sweet, writing The Sewing Girl’s Tale offered a chance to get to know NYC in new way Around every corner, on each new page, was a mystery or a revelation. Ultimately, this book became an opportunity to tell the story of our nation’s founding era not through the eyes of the so-called Founding Fathers but through the eyes of a young woman of modest circumstances: a seventeen-year-old sewing girl who refused to be silenced, who insisted that she, too, mattered. Hers is a powerful New York story of courage — and its costs,” said Sweet, a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We expect both to be cemented in the canon of great New York City books. Bradley Tusk and Howard Wolfson created the Gotham Book Prize in the early days of the pandemic to encourage and honor new works written about the city. Tusk, a venture capitalist , philanthropist and writer, teamed up with Wolfson, who works for Bloomberg Philanthropies, to create the prize as a...