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Colson Whitehead
AuthorBooks · Second handSince 1969
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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About Colson Whitehead
Birth
1969
First book
1999
Years writing
27
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.
Colson Whitehead was born in New York in 1969 and is one of the most prominent American novelists today.
He is one of only four writers in history to have won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice.
His acclaimed novel The Underground Railroad earned him both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
In addition to his prolific career as a novelist, he has worked as a journalist and literary critic.
Throughout his career, he has published a total of 15 works, including two nonfiction books.
