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Colson Whitehead

The Underground Railroad
4.06 avg rating — 422,161 ratings — published 2016 — 173 editions
The Nickel Boys
4.26 avg rating — 269,990 ratings — published 2019 — 127 editions
Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
3.73 avg rating — 75,848 ratings — published 2021 — 21 editions
Zone One
3.25 avg rating — 26,010 ratings — published 2011 — 48 editions
Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
3.87 avg rating — 17,911 ratings — published 2023 — 42 editions
The Intuitionist
3.63 avg rating — 15,573 ratings — published 1999 — 58 editions
Sag Harbor
3.55 avg rating — 10,984 ratings — published 2009 — 29 editions
The Colossus of New York
3.69 avg rating — 4,065 ratings — published 2003 — 40 editions
John Henry Days
3.63 avg rating — 3,297 ratings — published 2001 — 31 editions
Apex Hides the Hurt
3.50 avg rating — 3,353 ratings — publish
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Colson Whitehead

American novelist (born 1969)

Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead[1] (born November 6, 1969) 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.[2][3] He has also published two books of nonfiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship.

Early life

Whitehead was born in New York City on November 6, 1969, and grew up in Manhattan.[4] He is one of four children of successful entrepreneur parents who owned an executive recruiting firm.[5][6] As a child in Manhattan, Whitehead went by his first name Arch. He later switched to Chipp, before switching to Colson.[7] He attended Trinity School in Manhattan and graduated from Harvard University in 1991. In coll

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