Colson Whitehead - Wikipedia
The Underground Railroad won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Judges of the prize called the novel "a smart melding of realism and allegory that combines the violence of slavery and the drama of escape in a myth that speaks to contemporary America".
Colson Whitehead | Biography, The Underground Railroad, Books ...
Jan 1, 2025 · Colson Whitehead has won two Pulitzer Prizes for fiction. He won them for his historical novels The Underground Railroad (2016) and The Nickel Boys (2019). He is the first person to win Pulitzers for consecutive books.
Colson Whitehead '91 awarded second Pulitzer Prize
May 5, 2020 · The 1991 Harvard graduate won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in fiction on Monday for his novel “The Nickel Boys,” joining William Faulkner, John Updike, and Booth Tarkington as the only writers to win the prestigious prize twice.
The Underground Railroad , by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday) - Pulitzer
On behalf of Colson Whitehead, Doubleday Editor-in-Chief William Thomas accepts the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for The Underground Railroad from Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger. Winning Work
Colson Whitehead: Author wins Pulitzer Prize for a second time - BBC
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 Nickel Boys , by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday) - Pulitzer
Colson Whitehead is the author of nine books of fiction and non-fiction, including The Underground Railroad, which was a #1 New York Times bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. A recipient of MacArthur …
Colson Whitehead wins Pulitzer Prize for 'Underground Railroad' - USA TODAY
Apr 10, 2017 · The Underground Railroad, an inventive and searing take on slavery in 1850s Georgia, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction Monday, adding to author Colson Whitehead’s list of accolades and...
Colson Whitehead | National Endowment for the Humanities
He’s won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice, first for his 2016 novel, The Underground Railroad, which follows a slave named Cora as she escapes a Georgia plantation via the railroad of the title (which Whitehead imagines as an actual railway).
Colson Whitehead - Library of Congress
The author of seven novels, Whitehead is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2002, and in 2019 he was named “America’s Storyteller” by Time magazine.
Pulitzer Prize: Colson Whitehead wins again for 'The Nickel Boys'
May 4, 2020 · "The Nickel Boys," Colson Whitehead's searing examination of racism and inequality at a Florida reform school in the 1960s, won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the organization's board...