Colson Whitehead
1969 – present · b. New York City
United States
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Biography
Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead is an American novelist. He is the author of nine novels, including his 1999 debut The Intuitionist; The Underground Railroad (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; and The Nickel Boys, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020, making him one of only four writers ever to win the prize twice. He has also published two books of nonfiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship.
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Awards
- Hammett Prize (2023)No list
- National Humanities Medal (2021)No list
- Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction (2020)No list
- Orwell Prize for Political Fiction (2020)No list
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2020)
- Arthur C. Clarke Award (2017)
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2017)
- Heartland Prize (2017)No list
Notable Works
- John Henry Days
- The Intuitionist
- The Underground Railroad
- The Nickel Boys
Education
- Harvard University
- Trinity School
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