Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead was born in 1969 and grew up in New York City, where he currently resides. After graduating from Harvard, he began working for the Village Voice, writing reviews on television shows, books, and music. His articles and essays have been published in the New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Harper's, and Granta. He has authored seven novels, which have received numerous awards. His book "The Underground Railroad" (published by Psychogios, 2018) was honored with the US National Book Award 2016, Pulitzer Prize 2017, Carnegie Medal 2017, and Indies Choice Book Award 2017; it was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2017. The book "The Nickel Boys" (published by Ikaros, 2020) won the Pulitzer Prize 2020 and the Kirkus Prize 2019, was longlisted for the US National Book Award 2019, and was recognized as one of the ten most significant novels of the decade by Time magazine. Colson Whitehead has been awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Award, and the Dos Passos Prize. He has taught at the University of Houston, Columbia, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, New York University, Princeton, and Wesleyan.