Author
Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is a New York-based novelist. He is the author of six novels, including his debut work, the 1999 novel The Intuitionist, and National Book Award The Underground Railroad (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer …
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Colson Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is a New York-based novelist. He is the author of six novels, including his debut work, the 1999 novel The Intuitionist, and National Book Award The Underground Railroad (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He has also published two books of non-fiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship ("Genius Grant").
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