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Author photo. Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007, Brooklyn Book Festival

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007, Brooklyn Book Festival

Colson Whitehead

Author of The Underground Railroad

Includes the names: Whitehead Colso, Colson Whitehead, Колсон Уайтхед, コルソン ホワイトヘッド

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Colson Whitehead was born on November 6, 1969. He graduated from Harvard College and worked at the Village Voice writing reviews of television, books, and music. His first novel, The Intuitionist, won the Quality Paperback Book Club's New Voices Award. His other books include The Colossus of New York, Sag Harbor, and Zone One. He won the Young Lions Fiction Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for John Henry Days, the PEN/Oakland Award for Apex Hides the Hurt, and the National Book Award for fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Underground Railroad. His reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Harper's and Granta. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, and a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Underground Railroad… (more)
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Works by Colson Whitehead
The Underground Railroad 8,459 copies, 427 reviews
The Nickel Boys 3,707 copies, 203 reviews
The Intuitionist 2,132 copies, 60 reviews
Zone One 1,933 copies, 125 reviews
Harlem Shuffle 1,825 copies, 91 reviews
Sag Harbor 1,054 copies, 64 reviews
John Henry Days 759 copies, 15 reviews
Apex Hides the Hurt 557 copies, 21 reviews
The Colossus of New York 539 copies, 11 reviews
Crook Manifesto 293 copies, 11 reviews
The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death 230 copies, 14 reviews
Misdaadmanifest roman 4 copies
The Nickel Boys AND The Underground Railroad 3 copies
Apex Hides the Hurt/The Intuitionist/John Henry Days 1 copy
Lost and Found (essay) 1 copy, 1 review
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The Future Dictionary of America (Contributor) 622 copies, 3 reviews
Get Your War On (Introduction, some editions) 302 copies, 4 reviews
Granta 86: Film (Contributor) 203 copies
Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the… (Contributor) 165 copies, 6 reviews
The Customer Is Always Wrong: The Retail Chronicles (Contributor) 101 copies, 11 reviews
Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics (Contributor) 70 copies, 2 reviews
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading… (Contributor) 67 copies
Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor (Contributor) 63 copies
Significant Objects: 100 Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things (Contributor) 55 copies, 1 review
The Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2022 (Contributor) 30 copies, 2 reviews
Electric Literature No. 2 (Contributor) 6 copies, 1 review
The New Yorker Science Fiction Issue 2012, June 4 & 11 2 copies
The New Yorker 2019 - April 1 - Brooklyn or Bust 1 copy
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1969-11-06
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male
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USA
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USA
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New York, New York, USA
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Brooklyn, New York, USA
Education
Harvard College (1991)
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novelist
writer
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Nicole Aragi
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Whiting Writers' Award (2000)
MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant" (2002)
Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers fellowship
Young Lions Fiction Award (2002)
National Humanities Medal (2021)
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Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist. He is the author of seven novels, including his 1999 debut work, The Intuitionist, and The Underground Railroad (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020 for The Nickel Boys. He has also published two books of non-fiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship ("Genius Grant").
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