Colson Whitehead, author portrait
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Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twelve works of fiction and non-fiction, 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.

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Crook Manifesto
Harlem Shuffle
The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Zone One
Sag Harbor
The Colossus of New York
The Intuitionist

How writing about race in the past evokes the present | Author Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead (author of The Underground Railroad) | What I'm Reading

Colson Whitehead on his early writing | Author Shorts

Tue Jul 21 | 07:00 PM
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Thu Jul 30 | 07:00 PM
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Books

Crook Manifesto
Harlem Shuffle
The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Zone One
Sag Harbor
The Colossus of New York
The Intuitionist

Media

How writing about race in the past evokes the present | Author Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead (author of The Underground Railroad) | What I'm Reading

Colson Whitehead on his early writing | Author Shorts

Events

Tue Jul 21 | 07:00 PM
McNally Jackson Books at BKLYN STUDIOS.
1 Dekalb Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Google Map

Wed Jul 22
Memorial Auditorium, MSU
1 Normal Ave.
Montclair, NJ 07043
Google Map

Thu Jul 23 | 08:00 PM
Universal Preservation Hall
25 Washington St
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Google Map

Fri Jul 24 | 07:00 PM
Bank of NH Stage
16 S. Main Street
Concord, NH 03301
Google Map

Mon Jul 27 | 07:00 PM
Sixth & I
600 I St NW
Washington, DC 20001
Google Map

Tue Jul 28 | 06:30 PM
Fisk University - Jubilee Hall (Appleton Room)
1000 17th Ave N
Nashville, TN 37208
Google Map

Wed Jul 29 | 07:00 PM
UFPA Phillips Center
3201 Hull Rd
Gainesville, FL 32611
Google Map

Thu Jul 30 | 07:00 PM
First Baptist on Fifth
501 W 5th St.
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
Google Map

Mon Aug 03 | 06:00 PM
BARNES & NOBLE #2675
33 E 17TH ST FL 5
NEW YORK, NY 10003-2005
Google Map

Penguin Random House ALA Midwinter Award Winners & Honorees for Secondary Education

Last week, the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter announced their 2020 literary award winners and honorees at its annual meeting. Below you can find which Penguin Random House titles appropriate for Middle School and High School students were among the winners. To see which Elementary School titles were honored, click here. Alex Award The Nickel Boys

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Colson Whitehead has won his second Pulitzer Prize for THE NICKEL BOYS

Colson Whitehead has won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Nickel Boys. This is his second Pulitzer Prize (his novel The Underground Railroad won in 2017) and he is only the fourth writer—alongside Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and John Updike—to win two Pulitzer Prizes each in the Fiction category. Winner, ALA Alex Award In

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