Event
The Power of Story with Colson Whitehead: Online Event
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead discusses his work.
The author of number 1 New York Times bestselling books The Underground Railroad, The Nickel Boys, The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and a collection of essays, Whitehead is only the fourth writer to win two Pulitzers in the fiction category (for Underground Railroad in 2018 and The Nickel Boys in 2020). His latest novel, Crook Manifesto, was published in 2023.
His reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Harper’s, and Granta. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship and Guggenheim Fellowship, the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and many accolades.
He has taught at University of Houston, Columbia University, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, New York University, Princeton University, and Wesleyan University, and has been a writer-in-residence at Vassar College, the University of Richmond, and University of Wyoming. He lives in New York City.
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