the underground railroad a novel by colson whitehead

He has taught at the University of Houston, Columbia University, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, New York University, Princeton University, Wesleyan University, and been a Writer-in-Residence at Vassar College, the University of Richmond, and the University of Wyoming.Ĭora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship, A Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, the Dos Passos Prize, and a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. The Underground Railroad, a novel, was published in the fall of 2016 and won the National Book Award.Ĭolson Whitehead's reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in a number of publications, such as the New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Harper's and Granta. The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky & Death, a non-fiction account of the 2011 World Series of Poker, came appreared in 2014. Zone One (2011), about post-apocalyptic New York City, was a New York Times Bestseller.

It was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Sag Harbor, published in 2009, is a novel about teenagers hanging out in Sag Harbor, Long Island during the summer of 1985. It was published in 2003 and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.Īpex Hides the Hurt (2006) is a novel about a 'nomenclature consultant' who gets an assignment to name a town, and was a recipient of the PEN/Oakland Award. The Colossus of New York is a book of essays about the city. The novel received the Young Lions Fiction Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Fiction Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. John Henry Days followed in 2001, an investigation of the steel-driving man of American folklore. 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 Voices Award. After graduating from Harvard College, he started working at the Village Voice, where he wrote reviews on television, books, and music. Colson Whitehead was born in 1969, and was raised in Manhattan.

The underground railroad a novel by colson whitehead