Portrait of Colson Whitehead

    Author

    Colson Whitehead

    American novelist and the only writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice in consecutive novels, for The Underground Railroad (2017) and The Nickel Boys (2020). He is also a MacArthur Fellow.

    Fiction

    Books by this author

    Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead — book cover
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    Cool Machine

    Colson Whitehead

    Whitehead's latest is a high-voltage caper set in 1970s New York, where a jukebox engineer with a sideline in stolen art gets pulled into the heist of his life.

    Fiction
    The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead — book cover
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    The Nickel Boys

    Colson Whitehead

    Based on a true story of an abusive reform school in Florida during the Jim Crow era.

    Fiction