Author
Colson Whitehead
b. November 6, 1969 · United States
Novelist, Journalist, Literary critic, Writer
Titles on list
5
Total weeks
58
Peak rank
#1
Weeks at #1
3
Hit #1Dot size = weeks on list
Biography
- Born
- November 6, 1969 · New York City
- Nationality
- United States
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- English
- Education
- Harvard University, Trinity School
Awards & Honours
- 2002MacArthur Fellows Program
- 2002Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
- 2008PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award
- 2012Dos Passos Prize
- 2016National Book Award
- 2017Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- 2017Arthur C. Clarke Award
- 2020Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- 2020Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
- 2020Orwell Prize for Political Fiction
- 2021National Humanities Medal
- 2023Hammett Prize
- Guggenheim Fellowship
On the Bestseller Lists
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