The club of writers who have won the Pulitzer Prize twice for fiction is small. It contains just four members. The club of those awarded the prize for consecutive novels is even smaller. Colson ...

There’s Colson Whitehead up ahead, minutes before our arranged time, dawdling on the corner of 126th Street and Fifth Avenue, dressed in slim jeans and Chelsea boots, his dreadlocks cutting a clean ...

Whitehead is again being hailed for his creativity in Harlem Shuffle, this time for writing a literary novel that also has the hallmarks of page-turning genre fiction. If the book’s reception reveals ...

Ann Patchett and Veronica Roth return; Liane Moriarty reprises the Australia of “Big Little Lies”; Stephen King and Colson Whitehead conclude their most recent trilogies; and more. By Miguel Salazar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colson Whitehead brought his characteristic wit to the sensitive subject of America’s long history of racial tension as he opened ...

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Death knells toll alike at the dawn of the machine age and the digital age, proclaiming an exhausted general collapse in this impressive, multilayered second novel by Whitehead (The Intuitionist ).

NPR's Scott Simon talks to acclaimed novelist Colson Whitehead about his new novel, The Nickel Boys, which is based on the horrors of a real juvenile reformatory academy. Elwood Curtis is a brilliant ...

For some African-American writers, New York’s uptown neighborhood of Harlem represents both a crucible and a showcase. Writing about Harlem has been known to launch literary careers, for those good ...

Colson Whitehead is the first fiction writer to win two Pulitzer Prize awards for back to back books. In “The Underground Railroad” and “The Nickel Boys,” the latter of which comes out in paperback ...