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Colson Whitehead
American novelist (born 1969)
Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead[1] (born November 6, 1969) 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.[2][3] He has also published two books of nonfiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship.
Early life
Whitehead was born in New York City on November 6, 1969, and grew up in Manhattan.[4] He is one of four children of successful entrepreneur parents who owned an executive recruiting firm.[5][6] As a child in Manhattan, Whitehead went by his first name Arch. He later switched to Chipp, before switching to Colson.[7] He attended Trinity School in Manhattan and graduated from Harvard University in 1991. In coll
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Get to Know Portland Arts & Lectures Author Colson Whitehead
On September 24, Literary Arts will close out our 2019-20 season of Portland Arts & Lectures with Colson Whitehead, author of The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad, a New York Times best seller which won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the National Book Award.
“A piece of art really works when you see yourself in the main characters and you see a glimpse of yourself in the villains.”
Want to write like Colson Whitehead? Whitehead lays out his rules for writing in this article, titled How To Write, published in The New York Times.
Rule #1?: Show and Tell.
“Most people say, ‘Show, don’t tell,’ but I stand by Show and Tell, because when writers put their work out into the world, they’re like kids bringing their broken unicorns and chewed-up teddy bears into class in the sad hope that someone else will love them as much as they do.”
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R WHITE HOUSE CITATION “I was a shut-in kid and loved to read and watch sci-fi matinees on TV,” says Colson Whitehead of his early inspirations as a writer. “The switch for me was coming across Borges and Gabriel García Márquez as a senior in high school. These were highbrow writers, people who wrote literature and were using the same fantastic effects I loved in horror and science-fiction, but using it toward a different end.” From those origins, Whitehead has stretched the boundaries of literary fiction. His work blends high and low, past and present, the wildly speculative and the bone-deep realities of race and class in America. Since his debut novel, 1999’s The Intuitionist, he’s populated his work with zombies and bank robbers, contemplated the social im
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Colson Whitehead, for his truth-seeking as an American literary icon. With genre-defying craftsmanship and creativity, Colson Whitehead’s celebrated novels make real the African American journey through our Nation’s continued reckoning with the original sin of slavery and our ongoing march toward a more perfect Union.
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