Colson Whitehead is the author of the novels "The Intuitionist," a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award; "John Henry Days," which won the Young Lions Fiction Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and "Apex Hides the Hurt," a "New York Times" Notable Book and winner of the PEN Oakland Award. He has also written a book of essays about his home town, "The Colossus of New York." A recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and a MacArthur Fellowship, he lives in Brooklyn.
"Whitehead's most enjoyable book--warm and funny, carefully
observed, and beautifully written, studded with small moments of
pain and epiphany....Whiehead seems to be having the time of his
life; one can almost feel him relaxing into this book as if it
actually were the summer home of his youth....The humor of 'Sag
Harbor'--which reaches its apex in a scene involving seminal
mid-'80s hip hop group UTFO's appearance at the local waffle cone
emporium, where the rapper known as Dr. Ice provides some astute
medical advice--is twinned by pain. It is Benji's uncertainty about
everything that gives him such perspective, imbues even his most
casual observations with a sheen of elegiac wisdom....tense, lush,
poignant--'Sag Harbor' at its most satisfying."--"The Boston
Globe"
"Sea-breeze buoyant....teasingly self-aware spirit.....hilariously
trifling intricacies of this self-discovery process. Credit Mr.
Whitehead with this: He captures the fire flies of teenage
summertime in a jar....What's best about "Sag Harbor" is the utter
and sometimes mortifying accuracy of its descriptive
details....equally aware of the tiny nuances of teen
culture....When this book's range encompasses kids, parents,
community, tradition and history simultaneously, Mr. Whitehead's
recovered memories don't seem so trivial after all." --Janet
Maslin, "The New York Times"
"Whitehead's delicious language and sarcastic, clever voice fit
this teenager who's slowly constructing himself....It's time for us
to hear more post-black stories like this."-"The New York Times
Book Review"
"In his ebullient, supremely confident fourth novel....offers such
pleasures only a grump would complain....Debates and disquisitions
about the timeless ephemera of pop culture appear in realistic
proportion, and the resulting humor feels earned rather than easy,
because of its thematic relevance and, above all, Whitehead's skill
with voice and character....come off the page with energy and
pathos." "San Diegom
"Whitehead's most enjoyable book--warm and funny, carefully
observed, and beautifully written, studded with small moments of
pain and epiphany....Whiehead seems to be having the time of his
life; one can almost feel him relaxing into this book as if it
actually were the summer home of his youth....The humor of 'Sag
Harbor'--which reaches its apex in a scene involving seminal
mid-'80s hip hop group UTFO's appearance at the local waffle cone
emporium, where the rapper known as Dr. Ice provides some astute
medical advice--is twinned by pain. It is Benji's uncertainty about
everything that gives him such perspective, imbues even his most
casual observations with a sheen of elegiac wisdom....tense, lush,
poignant--'Sag Harbor' at its most satisfying."--"The Boston
Globe"
"Sea-breeze buoyant....teasingly self-aware spirit.....hilariously
trifling intricacies of this self-discovery process. Credit Mr.
Whitehead with this: He captures the fire flies of teenage
summertime in
Praise for "Sag Harbor"
"Pure shimmering brilliance. Colson Whitehead's affecting new novel
joyously lights up a place, a time, a family, and one unforgettable
young man. It is also one of the funniest books I've ever read, a
book loaded with the kind of humor that can only soar off a
heartbreaking sadness."
--Gary Shteyngart, author of "Absurdistan" and "The Russian
Debutante's Handbook" Praise for Colson Whitehead
"Whitehead is making a strong case for a new name of his own: that
of the best of the new generation of American novelists." --"Boston
Globe"
"No novelist writing today is more engaging and entertaining when
it comes to questions of race, class, and commercial culture than
Colson Whitehead." --"USA Today"
"[Whitehead] takes on a multitude of issues with a rich and probing
imagination. His reputation is likely to soar." --Ishmael Reed,
"Washington Post Book World"
"[Whitehead] writes wonderfully, commanding a lush, poetic,
mellifluous prose instrument." --"The Nation"
Praise for Colson Whitehead
"Whitehead is making a strong case for a new name of his own: that
of the best of the new generation of American novelists." --"The
Boston Globe
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"Whitehead [is] one of the city's and country's finest young
writers." --"Chicago Tribune" "Does what writing should do; it
refreshes our sense of the world. --John Updike," The New Yorker"
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