Colson Whitehead
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January 01, 1969
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Colson Whitehead was born in 1969, and was raised in Manhattan. After graduating from Harvard College, he started working at the Village Voice, where he wrote reviews of television, books, and music.
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.
John Henry Days followed in 2001, an investigation of the steel-driving man of American folklore. It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Fiction Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. The novel received the Young Lions Fiction Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.
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The Intuitionist: A Novel by Colson Whitehead avg rating 3.72 — 1,156 ratings — published 1998 11 editions |
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Sag Harbor: A Novel by Colson Whitehead avg rating 3.44 — 618 ratings — published 2009 5 editions |
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John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead avg rating 3.64 — 380 ratings — published 2001 10 editions |
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Apex Hides the Hurt: A Novel by Colson Whitehead avg rating 3.41 — 399 ratings — published 2006 8 editions |
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The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead avg rating 3.71 — 221 ratings — published 2003 9 editions |
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Electric Literature No. 2 by Colson Whitehead avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2009 |
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The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published 2000 |
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Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead, Peter Fernandez avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2006 |
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Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2007 |
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"Google “brooklyn writer” and you’ll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?"
— Colson Whitehead
— Colson Whitehead
"Isn't it great when you're a kid and the world is full of anonymous things? Everything is bright and mysterious until you know what it is called and then all the light goes out of it...Once we knew the name of it, how could we ever come to love it?...For things had true natures, and they hid behind false names, beneath the skin we gave them."
— Colson Whitehead (Apex Hides the Hurt: A Novel)
— Colson Whitehead (Apex Hides the Hurt: A Novel)
"Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch closer to the truth. Bit by bit we crept along. As if that thing we believed to be approaching actually existed."
— Colson Whitehead (Apex Hides the Hurt: A Novel)
— Colson Whitehead (Apex Hides the Hurt: A Novel)
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