Author

Books by Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead is an American novelist born in 1969 in New York City. He is the author of eight novels, including The Intuitionist (1999), Zone One (2011), The Underground Railroad (2016), and Harlem Shuffle (2021). The Nickel Boys (2019) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Whitehead one of the very few authors to win the Pulitzer Prize twice. The Underground Railroad also won the Pulitzer in 2017, as well as the National Book Award. Whitehead teaches at NYU and lives in New York.