Colson Whitehead
Born and currently residing in New York City, Colson Whitehead earned his B.A. from Harvard and began writing reviews of books, films, and music for the Village Voice. His novels and nonfiction works, beginning with The Intuitionist in 1999 up until The Underground Railroad in 2016, have earned him numerous prestigious literary awards and fellowships, including the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, and a MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowship. He also writes for the New York Times and the...