Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author ofThe Underground Railroad, which in 2016 won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the National Book Award and was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year byThe New York Times Book Review, as well asThe Noble Hustle,Zone One,Sag Harbor,The Intuitionist,John Henry Days,Apex Hides the Hurt, andThe 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.

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