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Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad, which in 2016 won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the National Book Award and was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, as well as The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and The Colossus of New York. He is also a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a recipient of the MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships. He lives in New York City.

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Crook Manifesto
The Intuitionist
Harlem Shuffle
The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
The Underground Railroad
The Noble Hustle
Zone One
Sag Harbor
Apex Hides the Hurt
The Colossus of New York
John Henry Days
The Intuitionist

How writing about race in the past evokes the present | Author Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead (author of The Underground Railroad) | What I'm Reading

Colson Whitehead on his early writing | Author Shorts

Books

Crook Manifesto
The Intuitionist
Harlem Shuffle
The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
The Underground Railroad
The Noble Hustle
Zone One
Sag Harbor
Apex Hides the Hurt
The Colossus of New York
John Henry Days
The Intuitionist

Media

How writing about race in the past evokes the present | Author Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead (author of The Underground Railroad) | What I'm Reading

Colson Whitehead on his early writing | Author Shorts

Colson Whitehead has won his second Pulitzer Prize for THE NICKEL BOYS

Colson Whitehead has won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Nickel Boys. This is his second Pulitzer Prize (his novel The Underground Railroad won in 2017) and he is only the fourth writer—alongside Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and John Updike—to win two Pulitzer Prizes each in the Fiction category. Winner, ALA Alex Award Winner,

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Barack Obama Shares His 2019 Summer Reading List

Summer might be ending soon, but there’s still time to pick up some of Barack Obama’s seasonal reading picks!   Last month, former President Barack Obama continued his annual tradition of sharing his summer reading list on his Facebook Page, and many of his selections are published by Penguin Random House imprints. Mr. Obama begins

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Interviews, Reviews, and News: Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad received glowing critical reception upon its publication, earning him the National Book Award and the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His highly anticipated follow-up novel The Nickel Boys faced the threat of being overshadowed by its predecessor, but has quickly earned a spotlight of its own. We’ve put together a

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