COLSON WHITEHEAD is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, the 2016 National Book Award, and named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, as well as The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and The Colossus of New York. He is also a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a recipient of the MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships. He lives in New York City.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE, THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, THE ALA
ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL AND THE HURSTON/WRIGHT AWARD ** NAMED A BEST
BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, WALL STREET
JOURNAL, WASHINGTON POST, TIME, PEOPLE, NPR AND MORE ** #1 NEW YORK
TIMES BESTSELLER
“Get it, then get another copy for someone you know because you are
definitely going to want to talk about it once you read that
heart-stopping last page.”
--Oprah Winfrey (Oprah's Book Club 2016 Selection)
“[A] potent, almost hallucinatory novel... It possesses the
chilling matter-of-fact power of the slave narratives collected by
the Federal Writers’ Project in the 1930s, with echoes of Toni
Morrison’s Beloved, Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, Ralph Ellison’s
Invisible Man, and brush strokes borrowed from Jorge Luis Borges,
Franz Kafka and Jonathan Swift…He has told a story essential to our
understanding of the American past and the American present.”
--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
“Think Toni Morrison (Beloved), Alex
Haley (Roots); think 12 Years a Slave…An electrifying novel…a
great adventure tale, teeming with memorable characters…Tense,
graphic, uplifting and informed, this is a story to share and
remember.”
--People, (Book of the Week)
"With this novel, Colson Whitehead proves that he belongs on any
short list of America's greatest authors--his talent and range are
beyond impressive and impossible to ignore. The Underground
Railroad is an American masterpiece, as much a searing document of
a cruel history as a uniquely brilliant work of fiction."
--Michael Schaub, NPR
“Far and away the most anticipated literary novel of the year, The
Underground Railroad marks a new triumph for Whitehead…[A] book
that resonates with deep emotional timbre. The Underground Railroad
reanimates the slave narrative, disrupts our settled sense of the
past and stretches the ligaments of history right into our own
era...The canon of essential novels about America's peculiar
institution just grew by one.”
--Ron Charles, Washington Post
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