Colson Whitehead, born and raised in Manhattan, began his writing career while finishing his undergraduate education at Harvard College. After graduating, he wrote book, film, and music reviews for the Village Voice, a New York City-based newspaper. He published his first novel, The Intuitionist, in 1999 and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for a debut novel—one of many awards for which Whitehead's work has since been nominated. He went on to publish seven more novels and two works of non-fiction. The Underground Railroad, published in 2016, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as a National Book Award. In 2019, Whitehead continued his success with the release of The Nickel Boys, which was published in July 2019 to wide critical acclaim. The Nickel Boys gained Whitehead his second Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; he is the fourth writer in history to receive the award twice. Whitehead's most recent novel, Harlem Shuffle, was released in September 2021.
Whitehead's work is known for exploring themes of racial inequality, gender, and social class. He has been hailed as one of America's most relevant and innovative contemporary authors, praised by the likes of Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, and John Updike. He has received the Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships for his work. Whitehead currently resides in Manhattan and has taught at several universities around the United States over the course of his career.
Harlem Shuffle is a novel by American author and Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead. Set in New York in the years 1959, 1961, and 1964, the novel depicts the life of a small-business owner who gets embroiled in criminal activities.
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The Nickel Boys, published in 2019, is a novel by Colson Whitehead about the fictional Nickel Academy and its students (the "Nickel Boys"), based on the real-life Dozier school. The Dozier School, like its fictional counterpart, was a reform...
Sag Harbor is the fourth novel by highly-regarded writer Colson Whitehead and represents something of a departure from his previous works in both tone, style and subject matter. The story is a semi-autobiographical account of an African-America...
Published in 2016 by award-winning American author, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad is a gripping account of a runaway slave, Cora, as she makes her way through a fictionalized American landscape. Throughout her journey to freedom, Cora...
Colson Whitehead is one of the most acclaimed and awarded American writers at work today. To date, he has won the National Book Award, two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction, and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a prestigious MacArthur Genius...
