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PRAISE FOR COLSON WHITEHEAD
Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner of the National Book Award Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
'A writer who is rounding into mastery . . . [Whitehead] has made himself one of the finest novelists in America' The Wall Street Journal
'Whitehead is a superb storyteller' Telegraph
'One of only a handful of writers who is so brilliant you just want to feed him stories. He has a distinctive voice, at once cynical and compassionate, and his wry observations cut to the quick' Sunday Times
'Luminous, furious, wildly inventive' Observer
'One of the greatest American writers alive' Time
'[Whitehead's] writing does what writing should do; it refreshes our sense of the world' The New Yorker

Colson Whitehead is a multi-award winning and bestselling author whose works include The Nickel Boys, The Underground Railroad, The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt and a collection of essays, The Colossus of New York. He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice and is a recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships. For The Underground Railroad, Whitehead won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Fiction, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a second time for The Nickel Boys, which also won the George Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and The Kirkus Prize. The Underground Railroad has been adapted as an Amazon Prime TV series, produced and directed by the Academy Award winning director Barry Jenkins, and was broadcast in 2021. He lives with his family in New York City.