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His nonfiction account of the 2011 World Series of Poker, The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky & Death, was published by Doubleday in 2014. Whitehead has taught at Princeton University, New York University, the University of Houston, Columbia University, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, and Wesleyan University.
Jun 18, 2024 · Colson Whitehead is an American author known for innovative novels that explore social themes, including racism, while often incorporating fantastical elements. He was the first writer to win a Pulitzer Prize for consecutive books: the historical novels The Underground Railroad (2016) and The Nickel Boys (2019).
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.
Jul 18, 2023 · Colson Whitehead. CROOK MANIFESTO, the second book in the Harlem Trilogy, will be published on July 18th, 2023. Surely this is exciting news, the return of the good gumbo.
Bio. 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.
Oct 21, 2021 · Sitting in a quiet coffee shop near his Brooklyn home, Whitehead explains that he constructed his new novel so that the story of his modern protagonist, a young black journalist named J. Sutter,...
Mar 1, 2021 · Through historical fiction, he has illuminated the past to tell us something about our present. But his work does not stay in one place. He has written about elevator inspectors, zombie hunters and...
Aug 2, 2016 · Mr. Whitehead dived into the subject, reading classic 19th-century slave narratives like Harriet Jacobs’s “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” and oral histories of former slaves gathered ...
May 5, 2020 · US author Colson Whitehead has become only the fourth writer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice. The African-American author was honoured for The Nickel Boys, which chronicles the...
May 5, 2020 · US author Colson Whitehead has become only the fourth writer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice. The African-American author was honoured for The Nickel Boys, which chronicles the...
