Colson Whitehead
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Colson Whitehead was born on November 6, 1969. He graduated from Harvard College and worked at the Village Voice writing reviews of television, books, and music. His first novel, The Intuitionist, won the Quality Paperback Book Club's New Voices Award. His other books include The Colossus of New näytä lisää York, Sag Harbor, and Zone One. He won the Young Lions Fiction Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for John Henry Days, the PEN/Oakland Award for Apex Hides the Hurt, and the National Book Award for fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Underground Railroad. His reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Harper's and Granta. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, and a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times (2008) — Avustaja — 167 kappaletta
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Avustaja — 75 kappaletta
Significant Objects: 100 Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things (2012) — Avustaja — 57 kappaletta
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- Syntymäaika
- 1969-11-06
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Maa (karttaa varten)
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- New York, New York, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Koulutus
- Harvard College (1991)
- Ammatit
- novelist
writer - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Whiting Writers' Award (2000)
MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant" (2002)
Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers fellowship
Young Lions Fiction Award (2002)
John Dos Passos Prize (2012)
National Humanities Medal (2021) - Agentti
- Nicole Aragi
- Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist. He is the author of seven novels, including his 1999 debut work, The Intuitionist, and The Underground Railroad (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020 for The Nickel Boys. He has also published two books of non-fiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship ("Genius Grant").
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October 2023: Colson Whitehead, Monthly Author Reads (marraskuu 2023)
April 2020: Colson Whitehead, Monthly Author Reads (elokuu 2020)
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