Colson Whitehead is a highly acclaimed American novelist born in 1969 and raised in Manhattan. After graduating from Harvard College, he began his career at The Village Voice, where he wrote reviews for television, books, and music. Renowned for his genre-bending prose and sharp commentary on race and American society, Whitehead made literary history as one of the few authors to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice, receiving back-to-back honors for The Underground Railroad (which also won the National Book Award) and The Nickel Boys. His diverse body of work spans acclaimed early novels like The Intuitionist and John Henry Days, his modern "Harlem Trilogy" heist series consisting of Harlem Shuffle, Crook Manifesto, and The Coolest Machine, as well as compelling nonfiction memoirs such as The Colossus of New York.
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