blackbirdan online journal of literature and the artsSpring 2017  Vol. 16 No. 2
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Colson Whitehead
COLSON WHITEHEAD

Colson Whitehead is the author of The Underground Railroad (Doubleday, 2016), which won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Carnegie Medal for Fiction, and was a #1 New York Times Best Seller. He is the also the author of The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky & Death (Doubleday, 2014); Zone One (Doubleday, 2011); Sag Harbor (Anchor, 2009); Apex Hides the Hurt (Anchor, 2006), which won the 2008 PEN/Oakland Award; The Colossus of New York (Anchor, 2003); John Henry Days (Anchor, 2001), which received the Young Lions Fiction Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award; and The Intuitionist (Anchor, 2000), which won the 1999 Quality Paperback Book Club’s New Voices Award. Whitehead has received fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. Whitehead is also the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and the Dos Passos Prize.  end