The NYT said, in 1990, that Walter Duranty's Pulitzer Prize winning work was, "(S)ome of the worst reporting to appear in this newspaper." However after review the Pulitzer Board declined to rescind the award, and the NYT has not returned it. These minimal actions - the review and the public statement - came only AFTER Robert Conquest's 1986 book, The Harvest of Sorrow and Sally J. Taylor's 1990 book, "Stalin's Apologist" were published.