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Colson Whitehead

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born
in New York City, New York, The United States
January 01, 1969

gender
male

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Literature & Fiction, Horror


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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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Colson Whitehead's Books

Average rating: 3.43 · 15,759 ratings · 2,974 reviews · 12 distinct works · Similar authors
Zone One
3.26 of 5 stars 3.26 avg rating — 6,850 ratings — published 2011 — 14 editions
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The Intuitionist
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 3,045 ratings — published 1998 — 15 editions
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Sag Harbor
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 2,671 ratings — published 2009 — 14 editions
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John Henry Days
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 971 ratings — published 2001 — 12 editions
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Apex Hides the Hurt
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 1,017 ratings — published 2006 — 16 editions
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The Colossus of New York
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 623 ratings — published 2003 — 11 editions
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“We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.”
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“A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.”
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