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In conjunction with its publication, Whitehead was featured on the cover Time magazine's July 8, 2019, edition, alongside the strap-line "America's Storyteller". [5] The Nickel Boys won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. [22]
Jul 18, 2023 · Learn about the author of THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, CROOK MANIFESTO, and HARLEM SHUFFLE. Find out his upcoming events, reviews, interviews, and contact information.
Jun 18, 2024 · Colson Whitehead is an American author known for innovative novels that explore social themes, including racism, while often incorporating fantastical elements. He was the first writer to win a Pulitzer Prize for consecutive books: the historical novels The Underground Railroad (2016) and The Nickel Boys (2019).
Bio. Colson Whitehead was born in 1969, and was raised in Manhattan. After graduating from Harvard College, he started working at the Village Voice, where he wrote reviews of television, books, and music.
Oct 21, 2021 · Colson Whitehead warily approached the cold, abandoned tunnel and ventured inside. “Water was dripping everywhere,” he recalls. “It was really dank and muddy.” As his eyes adjusted to the...
COLSON WHITEHEAD is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eleven works of fiction and nonfiction, and is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, for The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad, which also won the National Book Award. A recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, he lives in New York City.
Jul 13, 2023 · Returning to the world of his novel “Harlem Shuffle,” Colson Whitehead’s “Crook Manifesto” is a dazzling treatise, a glorious and intricate anatomy of the heist, the con and the slow game.
