1. Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead was born on November 6,1969 and is an American novelist.
11 Facts About Colson Whitehead
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Colson Whitehead is the author of nine novels, including his 1999 debut The Intuitionist; The Underground Railroad, 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.
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Colson Whitehead is one of four children of successful entrepreneur parents who owned an executive recruiting firm.
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Colson Whitehead later switched to Chipp, before switching to Colson.
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Colson Whitehead attended Trinity School in Manhattan and graduated from Harvard University in 1991.
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Early in his career, Colson Whitehead lived in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
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Colson Whitehead's books are The Intuitionist ; John Henry Days ; The Colossus of New York ; Apex Hides the Hurt ; Sag Harbor ; 2011's Zone One, a New York Times bestseller; 2016's The Underground Railroad, which earned a National Book Award for Fiction; The Nickel Boys ; Harlem Shuffle ; and Crook Manifesto.
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Colson Whitehead has taught at Princeton University, New York University, the University of Houston, Columbia University, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, and Wesleyan University.
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Colson Whitehead has been a writer-in-residence at Vassar College, the University of Richmond, and the University of Wyoming.
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In conjunction with its publication, Colson Whitehead was featured on the cover Time magazine's July 8,2019, edition, alongside the strap-line "America's Storyteller".
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Colson Whitehead spent years writing it, and finished it in "bite-sized chunks" during the months he spent in quarantine in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic.