Colson Whitehead
Auteur de Underground railroad
A propos de l'auteur
Colson Whitehead was born on November 6, 1969. He graduated from Harvard College and worked at the Village Voice writing reviews of television, books, and music. His first novel, The Intuitionist, won the Quality Paperback Book Club's New Voices Award. His other books include The Colossus of New afficher plus York, Sag Harbor, and Zone One. He won the Young Lions Fiction Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for John Henry Days, the PEN/Oakland Award for Apex Hides the Hurt, and the National Book Award for fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Underground Railroad. His reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Harper's and Granta. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, and a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de Colson Whitehead
[(The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death )] [Author: Colson Whitehead] [May-2014] (2014) 244 exemplaires, 14 critiques
Oeuvres associées
Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times (2008) — Contributeur — 167 exemplaires, 6 critiques
The Customer Is Always Wrong: The Retail Chronicles (2008) — Contributeur — 103 exemplaires, 11 critiques
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Contributeur — 79 exemplaires
Significant Objects: 100 Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things (2012) — Contributeur — 57 exemplaires, 1 critique
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1969-11-06
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Etats-Unis
- Pays (pour la carte)
- Etats-Unis
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, Etats-Unis
- Lieux de résidence
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Études
- Harvard College (1991)
- Professions
- novelist
writer - Prix et distinctions
- Whiting Writers' Award (2000)
MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant" (2002)
Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers fellowship
Young Lions Fiction Award (2002)
John Dos Passos Prize (2012)
National Humanities Medal (2021) - Agent
- Nicole Aragi
- Courte biographie
- Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist. He is the author of seven novels, including his 1999 debut work, The Intuitionist, and The Underground Railroad (2016), 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. He has also published two books of non-fiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship ("Genius Grant").
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Discussions
October 2023: Colson Whitehead à Monthly Author Reads (Novembre 2023)
April 2020: Colson Whitehead à Monthly Author Reads (Août 2020)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 15
- Aussi par
- 14
- Membres
- 23,931
- Popularité
- #876
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 1,133
- ISBN
- 375
- Langues
- 21
- Favoris
- 35