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For a smart melding of realism and allegory that combines the violence of slavery and the drama of escape in a myth that speaks to contemporary America. On behalf of Colson Whitehead, Doubleday Editor-in-Chief William Thomas accepts the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for The Underground Railroadfrom Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger.
Colson Whitehead was born in 1969, and was raised in Manhattan. After graduating from Harvard College, he started working at the Village Voice, where he wrote reviews of television, books, and music. His first novel, The Intuitionist, concerned intrigue in the Department of Elevator Inspectors, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway and a winner of the Quality Paperback Book Club's New ...
11 de abr. de 2023 · Last year, Colson Whitehead — at the age of 52 — decided that it was a good time to get his driver’s license. “I was successful. I grew up in New York, so I never really had to drive. But I felt bad for my wife, because she always has to take the kids, go shopping… then, when the pandemic was over, I decided to try some new things.
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Colson Whitehead (s. 6. marraskuuta 1969 New York) [1] on yhdysvaltalainen kirjailija . Whitehead opiskeli Harvardin yliopistossa. [2] Hänen esikoisromaaninsa The Intuitionist ilmestyi vuonna 1999 ja toinen romaani John Henry Days (suom. Balladi John Henrystä) vuonna 2001. Whitehead sai vuonna 2002 MacArthur Fellowship -apurahan.
15 de mar. de 2023 · Colson Whitehead. Neoyorquino del 1969 y el autor más joven de la historia en recibir el premio de la Biblioteca del Congreso a una carrera. Quizá por eso hay quien se sorprende de que, ...
7 de jul. de 2017 · Colson Whitehead His youthful confidence had its limitations, however. When he came up with the concept that would become The Underground Railroad , it was different from what appeared in the ...
