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Colson Whitehead was born in 1969, and was raised in Manhattan. After graduating from Harvard College, he started working at the Village Voice, where he wrote reviews of television, books, and music. His first novel, The Intuitionist, concerned intrigue in the Department of Elevator Inspectors, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway and a ...
Sep 8, 2021 · 27. By Alexandra Alter. Published Sept. 8, 2021 Updated Sept. 16, 2021. Listen to This Article. “I’m not a criminal mastermind,” Colson Whitehead said. It was an overcast morning in August, and...
Oct 21, 2021 · Interview: Colson Whitehead. “I am working in the African American literary tradition,” the novelist told us in 2001. “That’s my aim and what I see as my mission.”. Colson Whitehead ...
Jul 24, 2023 · July 24, 20231:43 PM ET. Heard on Fresh Air. Terry Gross. 35-Minute Listen. Playlist. "My early '70s New York is dingy and grimy," the Pulitzer Prize-winning author says. Whitehead's sequel to...
edit data. COLSON WHITEHEAD is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eleven works of fiction and nonfiction, and is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, for The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad, which also won the National Book Award. A recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, he lives in New York City.
Sep 29, 2021 · Doubleday. After writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning books The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, author Colson Whitehead needed a change of pace. So for his next novel, Harlem Shuffle,...
Aug 2, 2016 · Aug. 2, 2016. Colson Whitehead has long had a thing for the metaphoric possibilities of mechanized modes of transport, the more old-fashioned the better. His first novel, “ The Intuitionist...
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