Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead was born on November 6,1969 and is an American novelist.
12 Facts About Colson Whitehead
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Colson Whitehead is the author of eight novels, including his 1999 debut work The Intuitionist; The Underground Railroad, for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020 for The Nickel Boys.
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Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead was born in New York City on November 6,1969, and grew up in Manhattan.
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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 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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Colson Whitehead's 2016 novel, The Underground Railroad, was a selection of Oprah's Book Club 2.0, and was chosen by President Barack Obama as one of five books on his summer vacation reading list.
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In conjunction with the publication of The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead was featured on the cover of Time magazine for the July 8,2019, edition, alongside the strap-line "America's Storyteller".
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Colson Whitehead spent years writing the novel, and ultimately finished it in "bite-sized chunks" during the months he spent in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City.