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Colson Whitehead

Biography

Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 11 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.

Colson Whitehead

Books by Colson Whitehead

by Colson Whitehead - Fiction, Historical Fiction

The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of HARLEM SHUFFLE continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.

by Colson Whitehead - Fiction, Historical Fiction

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD and THE NICKEL BOYS comes a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.

by Colson Whitehead - Fiction, Historical Fiction

In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.

by Colson Whitehead - Fiction, Historical Fiction

From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.