Colson Whitehead is author of The Underground Railroad, which in 2016 won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Award, and ranks #7 in The New York Times 2024 list of the 100 best books of the 21st century. Its follow-up, The Nickle Boys, also won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Fiction. Whitehead’s other books include The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, The Colossus of New York, and Crook Manifesto. A recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships, in 2020 the Library of Congress awarded him their Prize for American Fiction and in 2021 he received the National Humanities Medal. He lives in New York City.
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