Colson Whitehead
30 workspublishing since 1998
Colson Whitehead (born 1969) is an American novelist and essayist. He became the first writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for two consecutive novels: The Underground Railroad (2016), which also won the National Book Award, and The Nickel Boys (2019). His fiction moves freely across genres, from the detective fantasy of The Intuitionist to the zombie novel Zone One and the coming-of-age story Sag Harbor. His later work includes the Harlem crime novels Harlem Shuffle (2021) and Crook Manifesto (2023).
