Colson Whitehead, author portrait
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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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Cool Machine
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

Cool Machine
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

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