Colson Whitehead
Autor(a) de The Underground Railroad
About the Author
Colson Whitehead was born on November 6, 1969. He graduated from Harvard College and worked at the Village Voice writing reviews of television, books, and music. His first novel, The Intuitionist, won the Quality Paperback Book Club's New Voices Award. His other books include The Colossus of New mostrar mais York, Sag Harbor, and Zone One. He won the Young Lions Fiction Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for John Henry Days, the PEN/Oakland Award for Apex Hides the Hurt, and the National Book Award for fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Underground Railroad. His reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Harper's and Granta. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, and a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Colson Whitehead
Lost and Found (essay) 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times (2008) — Contribuidor — 166 exemplares
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Contribuidor — 66 exemplares
Significant Objects: 100 Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things (2012) — Contribuidor — 56 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1969-11-06
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- País (no mapa)
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Educação
- Harvard College (1991)
- Ocupações
- novelist
writer - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Whiting Writers' Award (2000)
MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant" (2002)
Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers fellowship
Young Lions Fiction Award (2002)
National Humanities Medal (2021) - Agente
- Nicole Aragi
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist. He is the author of seven novels, including his 1999 debut work, The Intuitionist, and The Underground Railroad (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020 for The Nickel Boys. He has also published two books of non-fiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship ("Genius Grant").
Membros
Discussions
October 2023: Colson Whitehead em Monthly Author Reads (Novembro 26)
April 2020: Colson Whitehead em Monthly Author Reads (Agosto 2020)
Críticas
Crook Manifesto: A Novel por Colson Whitehead
A good sequel to Harlem Shuffle. Same great characters and trouble that ends well enough. Fun read. I wanted to know how each story resolved, but a little wordy. I skimmed some paragraphs towards the end.
Really good. Fun to read, smart and just good. The protagonist is a believable complicated thinking human. Similar to Zone One, the main point always seems to be—yeah, life goes in amidst the craziness. Carry on, folks.
Zombie post-apocalypse fiction. I found it a little hard to stay focused. Pandemic onset. Unclear origin or why or how it spreads? Story told out of order without a real gripe on the characters (since most people die) the main story being how one didn’t end up a skel or getting eaten (or does getting eaten make you a skel?) main character interesting, a B type. Average. Interesting discourse as to how this abets his survival (why anyone would want to survive is a seriously considered question—many do not). Story focuses around New York (with a funny digression in Northampton). The apocalypse will be bleak, man.… (mais)
A fun read, particularly if you grew up in NYC in the sixties and can appreciate the local references.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 18
- Also by
- 13
- Membros
- 21,859
- Popularidade
- #983
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 1,066
- ISBN
- 358
- Línguas
- 20
- Marcado como favorito
- 34
- Acerca
- 2
- Pedras de toque
- 754
