Colson Whitehead

NEW YORK (AP) — Colson Whitehead became the rare author to receive Pulitzers for consecutive books when his novel about a brutal Florida reform school during the Jim Crow era, “The Nickel Boys,” was awarded the fiction prize Monday. Three years ago, he won for his Civil War era novel “The Underground Railroad.” LIKE US […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Colson Whitehead‘s novel “The Nickel Boys” and Saeed Jones’ memoir “How We Fight for Our Lives” are among the winners of the Kirkus Prize, a $50,000 honor. On Thursday, Whitehead won in the fiction category for his narrative of a brutal boys academy in Florida. Jones’ coming-of-age book was cited for […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Colson Whitehead’s brutal narrative of a boys’ reform school, “The Nickel Boys,” and Marlon James’ fantasy epic “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” are among the works chosen by judges for the fiction longlist of the National Book Awards. Others on the list of 10 include Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s comic novel “Fleishman Is in […]

  NEW YORK (AP) — Three Black writers, including novelist Colson Whitehead for  “The Underground Railroad,” have taken home Pulitzer Prizes this year. Whitehead’s celebrated novel about an escaped slave that combined liberating imagination and brutal reality, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Monday’s announcement confirmed the book as the literary event of 2016, an Oprah […]