Colson Whitehead, born and raised in Manhattan, began his writing career while finishing his undergraduate education at Harvard College. After graduating, he wrote book, film, and music reviews for the Village Voice, a New York City-based newspaper. He published his first novel, The Intuitionist, in 1999 and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for a debut novel—one of many awards for which Whitehead's work has since been nominated. He went on to publish seven more novels and two works of non-fiction. The Underground Railroad, published in 2016, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as a National Book Award. In 2019, Whitehead continued his success with the release of The ...
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