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==Early life==
==Early life==
Whitehead was born in [[New York City]] on November 6, 1969, and grew up in [[Manhattan]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Maus|first=Derek C.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TzwKEAAAQBAJ|title=Understanding Colson Whitehead|publisher=[[University of South Carolina Press]]|year=2021|isbn=978-1-64336-175-8|edition=2nd|pages=2|oclc=1228234654|access-date=September 4, 2021|archive-date=March 22, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322053629/https://books.google.com/books?id=TzwKEAAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> He is one of four children of successful entrepreneur parents who owned an executive recruiting firm.<ref name="Time interview">{{cite magazine |url=https://time.com/5615610/colson-whitehead-the-nickel-boys-interview/ |title='I Carry It Within Me.' Novelist Colson Whitehead Reminds Us How America's Racist History Lives On |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |first=Mitchell S. |last=Jackson |date=June 27, 2019 |access-date=November 27, 2019 |archive-date=November 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191123032525/https://time.com/5615610/colson-whitehead-the-nickel-boys-interview/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/07/colson-whitehead-underground-railroad |title=Colson Whitehead: 'To deal with this subject with the gravity it deserved was scary' |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |first=Emma |last=Brockes |date=July 7, 2017 |access-date=November 27, 2019 |archive-date=November 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191107005408/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/07/colson-whitehead-underground-railroad |url-status=live }}</ref> As a child in Manhattan, Whitehead went by his first name Arch. He later switched to Chipp, before switching to Colson.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Colson Whitehead: 'We have kids in concentration camps. But I have to be hopeful' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/20/colson-whitehead-reality-is-kids-shot-by-racist-cops |last=Sandhu |first=Sukhdev |date=July 20, 2019 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=May 5, 2020 |archive-date=May 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200506193741/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/20/colson-whitehead-reality-is-kids-shot-by-racist-cops |url-status=live }}</ref> He attended [[Trinity School (New York City)|Trinity School]] in Manhattan and graduated from [[Harvard University]] in 1991. In college, he became friends with poet [[Kevin Young (poet)|Kevin Young]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.westernadvocate.com.au/story/4656062/colson-whitehead-the-truth-of-things-not-the-facts/?cs=36|title=Colson Whitehead: 'The truth of things, not the facts'|last=Purcell|first=Andrew|date=May 20, 2017|work=Western Advocate|access-date=June 12, 2017|language=en|archive-date=August 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808002155/http://www.westernadvocate.com.au/story/4656062/colson-whitehead-the-truth-of-things-not-the-facts/?cs=36|url-status=live}}</ref>
Whitehead was born in [[New York City]] on November 6, 1969, and grew up in [[Manhattan]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Maus|first=Derek C.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TzwKEAAAQBAJ|title=Understanding Colson Whitehead|publisher=[[University of South Carolina Press]]|year=2021|isbn=978-1-64336-175-8|edition=2nd|pages=2|oclc=1228234654|access-date=September 4, 2021|archive-date=March 22, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322053629/https://books.google.com/books?id=TzwKEAAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> He is one of four children of successful entrepreneur parents, his father Arch and mother, Mary Anne Whitehead who owned an executive recruiting firm.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Simms |first=Renee |date=2017-07-23 |title=Arch Colson "Colson" Whitehead (1969- ) |url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/whitehead-arch-colson-colson-1969/ |access-date=2025-07-22 |website=BlackPast.org |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Time interview">{{cite magazine |url=https://time.com/5615610/colson-whitehead-the-nickel-boys-interview/ |title='I Carry It Within Me.' Novelist Colson Whitehead Reminds Us How America's Racist History Lives On |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |first=Mitchell S. |last=Jackson |date=June 27, 2019 |access-date=November 27, 2019 |archive-date=November 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191123032525/https://time.com/5615610/colson-whitehead-the-nickel-boys-interview/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/07/colson-whitehead-underground-railroad |title=Colson Whitehead: 'To deal with this subject with the gravity it deserved was scary' |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |first=Emma |last=Brockes |date=July 7, 2017 |access-date=November 27, 2019 |archive-date=November 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191107005408/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/07/colson-whitehead-underground-railroad |url-status=live }}</ref> As a child in Manhattan, Whitehead went by his first name Arch. He later switched to Chipp, before switching to Colson.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Colson Whitehead: 'We have kids in concentration camps. But I have to be hopeful' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/20/colson-whitehead-reality-is-kids-shot-by-racist-cops |last=Sandhu |first=Sukhdev |date=July 20, 2019 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=May 5, 2020 |archive-date=May 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200506193741/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/20/colson-whitehead-reality-is-kids-shot-by-racist-cops |url-status=live }}</ref> He attended [[Trinity School (New York City)|Trinity School]] in Manhattan and graduated from [[Harvard University]] in 1991. In college, he became friends with poet [[Kevin Young (poet)|Kevin Young]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.westernadvocate.com.au/story/4656062/colson-whitehead-the-truth-of-things-not-the-facts/?cs=36|title=Colson Whitehead: 'The truth of things, not the facts'|last=Purcell|first=Andrew|date=May 20, 2017|work=Western Advocate|access-date=June 12, 2017|language=en|archive-date=August 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808002155/http://www.westernadvocate.com.au/story/4656062/colson-whitehead-the-truth-of-things-not-the-facts/?cs=36|url-status=live}}</ref>


== Career ==
== Career ==
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Early in his career, Whitehead lived in [[Fort Greene, Brooklyn]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Colson|last=Whitehead|url=https://nymag.com/nymetro/realestate/urbandev/features/n_10289/|title=Don't You Be My Neighbor|website=NYMag.com|date=April 23, 2004 |access-date=February 19, 2019|archive-date=May 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200511135550/https://nymag.com/nymetro/realestate/urbandev/features/n_10289/|url-status=live}}</ref>
Early in his career, Whitehead lived in [[Fort Greene, Brooklyn]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Colson|last=Whitehead|url=https://nymag.com/nymetro/realestate/urbandev/features/n_10289/|title=Don't You Be My Neighbor|website=NYMag.com|date=April 23, 2004 |access-date=February 19, 2019|archive-date=May 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200511135550/https://nymag.com/nymetro/realestate/urbandev/features/n_10289/|url-status=live}}</ref>


Whitehead has since produced 11 book-length works—nine novels and two nonfiction works, including a meditation on life in Manhattan in the style of [[E. B. White]]'s famous 1949 essay ''Here Is New York''. Whitehead's books are ''[[The Intuitionist]]'' (1999); ''[[John Henry Days]]'' (2001); ''[[The Colossus of New York (book)|The Colossus of New York]]'' (2003); ''[[Apex Hides the Hurt]]'' (2006); ''[[Sag Harbor (novel)|Sag Harbor]]'' (2009); 2011's ''[[Zone One]]'', a [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''New York Times'' bestseller]]; 2016's ''The Underground Railroad'', which earned a [[National Book Award for Fiction]]; ''[[The Nickel Boys]]'' (2019);<ref name="nationalbook.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2016winner_f_whitehead-underground-railroad.html#.WC2N-fmLS70|title=The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead, 2016 National Book Award Winner, Fiction|access-date=November 17, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171208042855/http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2016winner_f_whitehead-underground-railroad.html#.WC2N-fmLS70|archive-date=December 8, 2017|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="Bibliography">{{cite web |url=http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1033 |title=Colson Whitehead |access-date=March 18, 2008 |publisher=Pen.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070610010738/http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1033 |archive-date=June 10, 2007 }}</ref> ''[[Harlem Shuffle (novel)|Harlem Shuffle]]'' (2021); and ''[[Crook Manifesto]]'' (2023). ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'' magazine named ''The Intuitionist'' the best first novel of the year, and ''[[GQ]]'' called it one of the "novels of the millennium".<ref name="John Updike 2001">Updike, John (May 7, 2001), "Tote That Ephemera", ''[[The New Yorker]]''.</ref> Novelist [[John Updike]], reviewing ''The Intuitionist'' in ''[[The New Yorker]]'', called Whitehead "ambitious", "scintillating", and "strikingly original", adding: "The young African-American writer to watch may well be a thirty-one-year-old Harvard graduate with the vivid name of Colson Whitehead."<ref name="John Updike 2001"/>
Whitehead has since produced 11 book-length works—nine novels and two nonfiction works, including a meditation on life in Manhattan in the style of [[E. B. White]]'s famous 1949 essay ''Here Is New York''. Whitehead's books are ''[[The Intuitionist]]'' (1999); ''[[John Henry Days]]'' (2001); ''[[The Colossus of New York (book)|The Colossus of New York]]'' (2003); ''[[Apex Hides the Hurt]]'' (2006); ''[[Sag Harbor (novel)|Sag Harbor]]'' (2009); 2011's ''[[Zone One]]'', a [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''New York Times'' bestseller]]; 2016's ''The Underground Railroad'', which earned a [[National Book Award for Fiction]]; ''[[The Nickel Boys]]'' (2019);<ref name="nationalbook.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2016winner_f_whitehead-underground-railroad.html#.WC2N-fmLS70|title=The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead, 2016 National Book Award Winner, Fiction|access-date=November 17, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171208042855/http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2016winner_f_whitehead-underground-railroad.html#.WC2N-fmLS70|archive-date=December 8, 2017|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="Bibliography">{{cite web |url=http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1033 |title=Colson Whitehead |access-date=March 18, 2008 |publisher=Pen.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070610010738/http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1033 |archive-date=June 10, 2007 }}</ref> ''[[Harlem Shuffle (novel)|Harlem Shuffle]]'' (2021); and ''[[Crook Manifesto]]'' (2023). ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'' magazine named ''The Intuitionist'' the best first novel of the year, and ''[[GQ]]'' called it one of the "novels of the millennium".<ref name="John Updike 2001">Updike, John (May 7, 2001), "Tote That Ephemera", ''[[The New Yorker]]''.</ref> Novelist [[John Updike]], reviewing ''The Intuitionist'' in ''[[The New Yorker]]'', called Whitehead "ambitious", "scintillating", and "strikingly original", adding: "The young African-American writer to watch may well be a thirty-one-year-old Harvard graduate with the vivid name of Colson Whitehead."<ref name="John Updike 2001"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Colson Whitehead |url=https://www.neh.gov/award/colson-whitehead |access-date=2025-07-22 |website=National Endowment for the Humanities |language=en}}</ref>


''The Intuitionist'' was nominated as the Common Novel at [[Rochester Institute of Technology]] (RIT). The Common Novel nomination was part of a longtime tradition at the Institute that included such authors as [[Maya Angelou]], [[Andre Dubus III]], [[William Joseph Kennedy]], and [[Anthony Swofford]].
''The Intuitionist'' was nominated as the Common Novel at [[Rochester Institute of Technology]] (RIT). The Common Novel nomination was part of a longtime tradition at the Institute that included such authors as [[Maya Angelou]], [[Andre Dubus III]], [[William Joseph Kennedy]], and [[Anthony Swofford]].
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Whitehead's seventh novel, ''[[The Nickel Boys]]'', was published in 2019. It was inspired by the story of the [[Dozier School for Boys]] in Florida, where children convicted of minor offenses suffered violent abuse.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2020-05-05|title=Author wins Pulitzer Prize for a second time|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52539086|access-date=2020-05-05|archive-date=May 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200505085246/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52539086|url-status=live}}</ref> In conjunction with its publication, Whitehead was featured on the cover ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine's July 8, 2019, edition, alongside the [[strap-line]] "America's Storyteller".<ref name="Time interview" /> ''The Nickel Boys'' won the [[2020 Pulitzer Prize|2020]] [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Colson Whitehead and This American Life among Pulitzer 2020 winners |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/04/pulitizer-prize-2020-winners-colson-whitehead-this-american-life |last=Lee |first=Benjamin |date=May 4, 2020 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=May 4, 2020 |archive-date=May 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200504202637/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/04/pulitizer-prize-2020-winners-colson-whitehead-this-american-life |url-status=live }}</ref> Judges of the prize called the novel "a spare and devastating exploration of abuse at a reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida that is ultimately a powerful tale of human perseverance, dignity and redemption".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Moser, Whitehead, McDaniel, Grandin, Boyer, Brown Win 2020 Pulitzers |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/83233-pulitzer-prizes-2020.html |last=Maher |first=John |date=May 4, 2020 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |access-date=May 4, 2020 |archive-date=November 30, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130123841/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/83233-pulitzer-prizes-2020.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It was Whitehead's second win, making him the fourth writer to win the prize twice.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Colson Whitehead Wins Second Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/colson-whitehead-wins-second-pulitzer-prize-for-fiction |last=Tucker |first=Emma |date=May 4, 2020 |website=[[The Daily Beast]] |access-date=May 4, 2020 |archive-date=May 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200507201857/https://www.thedailybeast.com/colson-whitehead-wins-second-pulitzer-prize-for-fiction |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2022, it was announced that Whitehead will executive produce the upcoming [[The Nickel Boys (film)|film adaptation of the same name]].<ref name="Cast">{{Cite web |last=Grobar |first=Matt t |date=October 27, 2022  |title=Aunjanue Ellis & Four Others Set For RaMell Ross' Colson Whitehead Adaptation 'The Nickel Boys' For MGM's Orion; Plan B, Anonymous Producing |url=https://deadline.com/2022/10/aunjanue-ellis-four-others-set-for-ramell-ross-colson-whitehead-adaptation-the-nickel-boys-for-mgms-orion-plan-b-anonymous-producing-1235156604/ |access-date=January 1, 2023 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|archive-date=January 1, 2023|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230101014319/https://deadline.com/2022/10/aunjanue-ellis-four-others-set-for-ramell-ross-colson-whitehead-adaptation-the-nickel-boys-for-mgms-orion-plan-b-anonymous-producing-1235156604/}}</ref>
Whitehead's seventh novel, ''[[The Nickel Boys]]'', was published in 2019. It was inspired by the story of the [[Dozier School for Boys]] in Florida, where children convicted of minor offenses suffered violent abuse.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2020-05-05|title=Author wins Pulitzer Prize for a second time|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52539086|access-date=2020-05-05|archive-date=May 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200505085246/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52539086|url-status=live}}</ref> In conjunction with its publication, Whitehead was featured on the cover ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine's July 8, 2019, edition, alongside the [[strap-line]] "America's Storyteller".<ref name="Time interview" /> ''The Nickel Boys'' won the [[2020 Pulitzer Prize|2020]] [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Colson Whitehead and This American Life among Pulitzer 2020 winners |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/04/pulitizer-prize-2020-winners-colson-whitehead-this-american-life |last=Lee |first=Benjamin |date=May 4, 2020 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=May 4, 2020 |archive-date=May 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200504202637/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/04/pulitizer-prize-2020-winners-colson-whitehead-this-american-life |url-status=live }}</ref> Judges of the prize called the novel "a spare and devastating exploration of abuse at a reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida that is ultimately a powerful tale of human perseverance, dignity and redemption".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Moser, Whitehead, McDaniel, Grandin, Boyer, Brown Win 2020 Pulitzers |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/83233-pulitzer-prizes-2020.html |last=Maher |first=John |date=May 4, 2020 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |access-date=May 4, 2020 |archive-date=November 30, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130123841/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/83233-pulitzer-prizes-2020.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It was Whitehead's second win, making him the fourth writer to win the prize twice.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Colson Whitehead Wins Second Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/colson-whitehead-wins-second-pulitzer-prize-for-fiction |last=Tucker |first=Emma |date=May 4, 2020 |website=[[The Daily Beast]] |access-date=May 4, 2020 |archive-date=May 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200507201857/https://www.thedailybeast.com/colson-whitehead-wins-second-pulitzer-prize-for-fiction |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2022, it was announced that Whitehead will executive produce the upcoming [[The Nickel Boys (film)|film adaptation of the same name]].<ref name="Cast">{{Cite web |last=Grobar |first=Matt t |date=October 27, 2022  |title=Aunjanue Ellis & Four Others Set For RaMell Ross' Colson Whitehead Adaptation 'The Nickel Boys' For MGM's Orion; Plan B, Anonymous Producing |url=https://deadline.com/2022/10/aunjanue-ellis-four-others-set-for-ramell-ross-colson-whitehead-adaptation-the-nickel-boys-for-mgms-orion-plan-b-anonymous-producing-1235156604/ |access-date=January 1, 2023 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|archive-date=January 1, 2023|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230101014319/https://deadline.com/2022/10/aunjanue-ellis-four-others-set-for-ramell-ross-colson-whitehead-adaptation-the-nickel-boys-for-mgms-orion-plan-b-anonymous-producing-1235156604/}}</ref>


Whitehead's eighth novel, ''[[Harlem Shuffle (novel)|Harlem Shuffle]]'', was conceived and begun before he wrote ''The Nickel Boys''. It is a work of crime fiction set in Harlem during the 1960s.<ref name="Time interview" /> Whitehead spent years writing it, and finished it in "bite-sized chunks" during the months he spent in quarantine in New York City during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Canfield |first=David |date=July 15, 2020 |title=Colson Whitehead is now the most decorated writer of his generation. He's not slowing down |url=https://ew.com/books/author-interviews/colson-whitehead-nickel-boys-pulitzer-prize-quarantine/ |access-date=January 2, 2021 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |archive-date=December 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201210040841/https://ew.com/books/author-interviews/colson-whitehead-nickel-boys-pulitzer-prize-quarantine/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ''Harlem Shuffle'' was published by Doubleday on September 14, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/608669/harlem-shuffle-by-colson-whitehead/ |access-date=December 26, 2020 |website=[[Penguin Random House]] |archive-date=December 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201221181047/https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/608669/harlem-shuffle-by-colson-whitehead/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[Crook Manifesto]]'', Whitehead's ninth novel and a follow-up to ''Harlem Shuffle'', was published on July 18, 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead: 9780385545150 {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/608670/crook-manifesto-by-colson-whitehead/ |access-date=2023-07-06 |website=PenguinRandomhouse.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
Whitehead's eighth novel, ''[[Harlem Shuffle (novel)|Harlem Shuffle]]'', was conceived and begun before he wrote ''The Nickel Boys''. It is a work of crime fiction set in Harlem during the 1960s.<ref name="Time interview" /> Whitehead spent years writing it, and finished it in "bite-sized chunks" during the months he spent in quarantine in New York City during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Canfield |first=David |date=July 15, 2020 |title=Colson Whitehead is now the most decorated writer of his generation. He's not slowing down |url=https://ew.com/books/author-interviews/colson-whitehead-nickel-boys-pulitzer-prize-quarantine/ |access-date=January 2, 2021 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |archive-date=December 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201210040841/https://ew.com/books/author-interviews/colson-whitehead-nickel-boys-pulitzer-prize-quarantine/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ''Harlem Shuffle'' was published by Doubleday on September 14, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/608669/harlem-shuffle-by-colson-whitehead/ |access-date=December 26, 2020 |website=[[Penguin Random House]] |archive-date=December 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201221181047/https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/608669/harlem-shuffle-by-colson-whitehead/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[Crook Manifesto]]'', Whitehead's ninth novel and a follow-up to ''Harlem Shuffle'', was published on July 18, 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead: 9780385545150 {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/608670/crook-manifesto-by-colson-whitehead/ |access-date=2023-07-06 |website=PenguinRandomhouse.com |language=en-US}}</ref> ''Cool Machine'', Whitehead's tenth novel and the conclusion to his "Harlem Trilogy," will be published on July 21, 2026.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead: 9780385550505 {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/742026/cool-machine-by-colson-whitehead/ |access-date=2025-12-29 |website=PenguinRandomhouse.com |language=en-US}}</ref>


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
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| [[National Book Critics Circle Award]] || [[National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction|Fiction]] || {{sho}} ||
| [[National Book Critics Circle Award]] || [[National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction|Fiction]] || {{sho}} || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/books/national-book-critics-circle-awards/the-national-book-critics-circle-announces-finalis |title=The National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists for 2020 Awards |last=DeLeo |first=Isabella |date=Jan 13, 2020 |publisher=[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]}}</ref>
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! rowspan="11" | 2020
! rowspan="11" | 2020
| [[Alex Award]] || — || {{won}} ||
| [[Alex Award]] || — || {{won}} || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ala.org/yalsa/2020-alex-awards |title=2020 Alex Awards  |date=June 11, 2020 |website=[[American Library Association]]}}</ref>
|-
|-
| [[Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence]] || [[Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction#Fiction|Fiction]] || {{nom|Longlisted}} ||
| [[Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence]] || [[Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction#Fiction|Fiction]] || {{nom|Longlisted}} || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ala.org/carnegie-medals/longlist |title=Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence: Longlist 2020 |date=2020 |website=[[American Library Association]]}}</ref>
|-
|-
| [[Aspen Words Literary Prize]] || — || {{nom|Longlisted}} ||
| [[Aspen Words Literary Prize]] || — || {{nom|Longlisted}} || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/11/14/777651698/exclusive-nickel-boys-other-americans-among-nominees-for-aspen-words-prize |title=Exclusive: 'Nickel Boys,' 'Other Americans' Among Nominees For Aspen Words Prize |last=Dwyer |first=Colin |date=Nov 14, 2019 |publisher=[[NPR]]}}</ref>
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| [[Audie Award]] || Male Narrator || {{sho}} ||
| [[Audie Award]] || Male Narrator || {{sho}} || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/articles/in-conversation-with-golden-voice-narrator-jd-jackson/ |title=In Conversation with Golden Voice Narrator JD Jackson |date=Jun 6, 2020 |website=[[AudioFile (magazine)|AudioFile]]}}</ref>
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| [[BCALA Literary Awards]] || Fiction || {{won}} ||
| [[BCALA Literary Awards]] || Fiction || {{won}} ||
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! rowspan="5" | 2021
| rowspan="10" | ''[[Harlem Shuffle (novel)|Harlem Shuffle]]''
| rowspan="10" | ''[[Harlem Shuffle (novel)|Harlem Shuffle]]''
| [[Booklist Editors' Choice]] || Adult Audio || {{won}} ||
| [[Booklist Editors' Choice]] || Adult Audio || {{won}} || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.booklistonline.com/products/9757866 |title=Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Books, 2021. |date=1 Jan 2022 |website=Booklist |publisher=[[American Library Association]]}}</ref>
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| [[Goodreads Choice Awards]] || Mystery & Thriller || {{nom}}{{em dash}}6th||<ref>{{Cite web |title=Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Mystery & Thriller! |url=https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-mystery-thriller-books-2021 |access-date=2024-11-08 |website=Goodreads}}</ref>
| [[Goodreads Choice Awards]] || Mystery & Thriller || {{nom}}{{em dash}}6th||<ref>{{Cite web |title=Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Mystery & Thriller! |url=https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-mystery-thriller-books-2021 |access-date=2024-11-08 |website=Goodreads}}</ref>
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| [[Hammett Prize]] || — || {{sho}} ||
| [[Hammett Prize]] || — || {{sho}} ||  
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| [[Kirkus Prize]] || Fiction || {{sho}} ||
| [[Kirkus Prize]] || Fiction || {{sho}} || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-lifestyle-new-york-oprah-winfrey-arts-and-entertainment-ba44e81ecaa88a463462308c4ab16a18 |title=Whitehead's 'Harlem Shuffle' among Kirkus Prize nominees |date=14 Sep 2021 |publisher=[[Associated Press]] |accessdate=3 Sep 2025}}</ref>
|-
|-
| [[National Book Critics Circle Award]] || [[National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction|Fiction]]|| {{sho}} ||
| [[National Book Critics Circle Award]] || [[National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction|Fiction]]|| {{sho}} || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2022-01-20/here-are-the-finalists-for-the-2021-national-book-critics-circle-awards |title=Here are the finalists for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Awards |last=Pineda |first=Dorany |date=20 Jan 2022 |publisher=[[Los Angeles Times]] |accessdate=3 Sep 2025 }}</ref>
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|-
! rowspan="5" |2022
! rowspan="5" |2022
| [[BookTube Prize]] || Fiction || {{nom|Octofinalist}} ||
| [[BookTube Prize]] || Fiction || {{nom|Octofinalist}} ||
|-
|-
| [[Gotham Book Prize]] || Fiction || {{sho}} ||
| [[Gotham Book Prize]] || Fiction || {{sho}} || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/finalists-for-the-2022-gotham-book-prize-revealed/ |title=Finalists for the 2022 Gotham Book Prize Revealed |last=Schaub |first=Michael |date=27 Jan 2022 |website=[[Kirkus Reviews]] |accessdate=5 Sep 2025}}</ref>
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|-
| [[Macavity Award]] || Mystery Novel || {{sho}} ||
| [[Macavity Award]] || Mystery Novel || {{sho}} || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://mysteryreaders.org/macavity-awards/ |title=Macavity Awards |publisher=Mystery Readers Journal |accessdate=5 Sep 2025 }}</ref>
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|-
| [[NAACP Image Award]] || [[NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction|Fiction]]|| {{sho}} ||
| [[NAACP Image Award]] || [[NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction|Fiction]]|| {{sho}} || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/naacp-image-awards-2022-nominations-nominees-list-1235076593/ |title=NAACP Image Awards: 'Harder They Fall,' 'Insecure' Lead Nominations |last=Lewis |first=Hilary |date=18 Jan 2022 |publisher=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |accessdate=5 Sep 2025}}</ref>
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| [[New York City Book Award]] || — || {{won}} ||
| [[New York City Book Award]] || — || {{won}} || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=3744 |title=2022 New York City Book Award Winners Announced |date=9 May 2022 |publisher=[[Publishers Weekly]] |accessdate=5 Sep 2025 }}</ref>
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* {{cite book|first=Colson|last=Whitehead|author-mask=2|title=[[Harlem Shuffle (novel)|Harlem Shuffle]]|year=2021|edition=hardcover 1st|publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]]|ISBN=9780385545136}}   
* {{cite book|first=Colson|last=Whitehead|author-mask=2|title=[[Harlem Shuffle (novel)|Harlem Shuffle]]|year=2021|edition=hardcover 1st|publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]]|ISBN=9780385545136}}   
* {{cite book|first=Colson|last=Whitehead|author-mask=2|title=[[Crook Manifesto]]|year=2023|edition=hardcover 1st|publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]]|ISBN=9780385545150}}
* {{cite book|first=Colson|last=Whitehead|author-mask=2|title=[[Crook Manifesto]]|year=2023|edition=hardcover 1st|publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]]|ISBN=9780385545150}}
* {{Cite book |last=Whitehead |first=Colson |title=Cool Machine |publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] |year=2026 |isbn=9780385550505 |edition=hardcover 1st |author-mask=2}}


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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead[1] (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist. He is the author of nine novels, including his 1999 debut The Intuitionist; The Underground Railroad (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; and The Nickel Boys, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020, making him one of only four writers ever to win the prize twice.[2][3] He has also published two books of nonfiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship.

Early life

Whitehead was born in New York City on November 6, 1969, and grew up in Manhattan.[4] He is one of four children of successful entrepreneur parents, his father Arch and mother, Mary Anne Whitehead who owned an executive recruiting firm.[5][6][7] As a child in Manhattan, Whitehead went by his first name Arch. He later switched to Chipp, before switching to Colson.[8] He attended Trinity School in Manhattan and graduated from Harvard University in 1991. In college, he became friends with poet Kevin Young.[9]

Career

After graduating from college, Whitehead wrote for The Village Voice.[10][11] While working at the Voice, he began drafting his first novels.

Early in his career, Whitehead lived in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.[12]

Whitehead has since produced 11 book-length works—nine novels and two nonfiction works, including a meditation on life in Manhattan in the style of E. B. White's famous 1949 essay Here Is New York. Whitehead's books are The Intuitionist (1999); John Henry Days (2001); The Colossus of New York (2003); Apex Hides the Hurt (2006); Sag Harbor (2009); 2011's Zone One, a New York Times bestseller; 2016's The Underground Railroad, which earned a National Book Award for Fiction; The Nickel Boys (2019);[13][14] Harlem Shuffle (2021); and Crook Manifesto (2023). Esquire magazine named The Intuitionist the best first novel of the year, and GQ called it one of the "novels of the millennium".[15] Novelist John Updike, reviewing The Intuitionist in The New Yorker, called Whitehead "ambitious", "scintillating", and "strikingly original", adding: "The young African-American writer to watch may well be a thirty-one-year-old Harvard graduate with the vivid name of Colson Whitehead."[15][16]

The Intuitionist was nominated as the Common Novel at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). The Common Novel nomination was part of a longtime tradition at the Institute that included such authors as Maya Angelou, Andre Dubus III, William Joseph Kennedy, and Anthony Swofford.

Whitehead's nonfiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Granta, and Harper's.[17]

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Whitehead at the 2011 Brooklyn Book Festival

His nonfiction account of the 2011 World Series of Poker, The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky & Death, was published by Doubleday in 2014.

Whitehead has taught at Princeton University, New York University, the University of Houston, Columbia University, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, and Wesleyan University. He has been a writer-in-residence at Vassar College, the University of Richmond, and the University of Wyoming.

In 2015, he joined The New York Times Magazine to write a column on language.

The Underground Railroad was a selection of Oprah's Book Club 2.0, and was chosen by President Barack Obama as one of five books on his summer vacation reading list.[18][19] In 2017, the novel was awarded the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction at the American Library Association Mid-Winter Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.[20] Colson was honored with the 2017 Hurston/Wright Award for fiction presented by the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation.[21] The Underground Railroad won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Judges of the prize called the novel "a smart melding of realism and allegory that combines the violence of slavery and the drama of escape in a myth that speaks to contemporary America".[22]

Whitehead's seventh novel, The Nickel Boys, was published in 2019. It was inspired by the story of the Dozier School for Boys in Florida, where children convicted of minor offenses suffered violent abuse.[23] In conjunction with its publication, Whitehead was featured on the cover Time magazine's July 8, 2019, edition, alongside the strap-line "America's Storyteller".[6] The Nickel Boys won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[24] Judges of the prize called the novel "a spare and devastating exploration of abuse at a reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida that is ultimately a powerful tale of human perseverance, dignity and redemption".[25] It was Whitehead's second win, making him the fourth writer to win the prize twice.[26] In 2022, it was announced that Whitehead will executive produce the upcoming film adaptation of the same name.[27]

Whitehead's eighth novel, Harlem Shuffle, was conceived and begun before he wrote The Nickel Boys. It is a work of crime fiction set in Harlem during the 1960s.[6] Whitehead spent years writing it, and finished it in "bite-sized chunks" during the months he spent in quarantine in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic.[28] Harlem Shuffle was published by Doubleday on September 14, 2021.[29] Crook Manifesto, Whitehead's ninth novel and a follow-up to Harlem Shuffle, was published on July 18, 2023.[30] Cool Machine, Whitehead's tenth novel and the conclusion to his "Harlem Trilogy," will be published on July 21, 2026.[31]

Personal life

Whitehead lives in Manhattan and also owns a home in Sag Harbor on Long Island. His wife, Julie Barer, is a literary agent. They have two children.[32]

Honors

Literary awards

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Year Work Award Category Result Ref
2000 The Intuitionist PEN/Hemingway Award — Template:Sho
Whiting Awards Fiction Won
2001 John Henry Days Los Angeles Times Book Prize Fiction Template:Sho
National Book Critics Circle Award Fiction Template:Sho
Salon Book Award Fiction Won
2002 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Fiction Template:Sho
Pulitzer Prize Fiction Template:Sho
Young Lions Fiction Award Fiction Template:Sho
2008 Apex Hides the Hurt PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award — Won
2010 Sag Harbor Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Fiction Template:Sho
PEN/Faulkner Award — Template:Sho
2011 International Dublin Literary Award — Longlisted
Long Island Reads — Won
2012 Zone One Hurston/Wright Legacy Award — Template:Sho
2016 The Underground Railroad Booklist Editors' Choice Adult Audio Won
Goodreads Choice Awards Historical Fiction Won—1st [35]
Kirkus Prize Fiction Template:Sho
National Book Award Fiction Won [36]
2017 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Fiction Won
Arthur C. Clarke Award — Won
Audie Award Audiobook of the Year Template:Sho
Literary Fiction & Classics Template:Sho
Female Narrator Template:Sho
BCALA Literary Awards Fiction Template:Sho
Booker Prize — Longlisted
Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards Novel Won
Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize Fiction Won
Clark Fiction Prize — Won
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Fiction Template:Sho
Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award — Template:Sho
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Fiction Won
Indies Choice Book Awards Adult Fiction Won
John W. Campbell Memorial Award — Template:Sho
Locus Award Science Fiction Novel Nominated
NAACP Image Awards Fiction Template:Sho
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award — Template:Sho
Pulitzer Prize Fiction Won
TCK Publishing Reader's Choice Award Novel Won
2018 International Dublin Literary Award — Longlisted
2019 The Nickel Boys Foyles Books of the Year Fiction Template:Sho
Goodreads Choice Awards Historical Fiction Nominated—2nd [37]
Kirkus Prize Fiction Won [38]
National Book Award Fiction Longlisted [39]
National Book Critics Circle Award Fiction Template:Sho [40]
2020 Alex Award — Won [41]
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Fiction Longlisted [42]
Aspen Words Literary Prize — Longlisted [43]
Audie Award Male Narrator Template:Sho [44]
BCALA Literary Awards Fiction Won
BookTube Prize Fiction Template:Sho
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Fiction Template:Sho
Orwell Prize Political Fiction Won [45]
Pulitzer Prize Fiction Won [46]
The Writers' Prize — Longlisted
Lincoln Award — Nominated
2021 Harlem Shuffle Booklist Editors' Choice Adult Audio Won [47]
Goodreads Choice Awards Mystery & Thriller Nominated—6th [48]
Hammett Prize — Template:Sho
Kirkus Prize Fiction Template:Sho [49]
National Book Critics Circle Award Fiction Template:Sho [50]
2022 BookTube Prize Fiction Octofinalist
Gotham Book Prize Fiction Template:Sho [51]
Macavity Award Mystery Novel Template:Sho [52]
NAACP Image Award Fiction Template:Sho [53]
New York City Book Award — Won [54]

Works

Fiction

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Non-fiction

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Essays

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References

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Further reading

  • Elam, Michele. "Passing in the Post-Race Era: Danzy Senna, Philip Roth, and Colson Whitehead". African American Review, vol. 41, no. 4, 2007, pp. 749–68. JSTOR 25426988.
  • Fain, Kimberly (2015). Colson Whitehead: The Postracial Voice of Contemporary Literature. Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Kelly, Adam (October 2018). "Freedom to Struggle: The Ironies of Colson Whitehead". Open Library of the Humanities.
  • Maus, Derek C. (2021). Understanding Colson Whitehead, revised and expanded edition. University of South Carolina Press.

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