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Whitehead Zoomed with Esquire to discuss the challenges of trilogies, the "rules" of crime fiction, and the future of Ray Carney. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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 ...
In an interview with Alma Books, Whitehead states that the concept of the book originated from an article about the naming process for new pharmaceuticals such as Prozac. The article made Whitehead question how a similar process is used to assert a certain control over one's environment (his example is a boulevard named after a particular ...
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The Nickel Boys: How Colson Whitehead confronts American history
NEW YORK (AP) — Colson Whitehead's latest literary honor feels very much at home. The author's “Crook Manifesto,” a crime story set in 1970s Harlem and centered on a beleaguered furniture store owner, is this year's winner of the Gotham Book Prize for an outstanding work about New York City. The $5
Crook Manifesto is a 2023 novel by Colson Whitehead, published by Doubleday.It returns to the fictional world of his previous book, Harlem Shuffle.It is a work of crime fiction and a family saga that takes place in Harlem during three periods: 1971, 1973, and 1976, the year of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
In his latest offering, “Harlem Shuffle,” author Colson Whitehead (above) “brilliantly weaves crime fiction, family drama and political history in one rollicking and heartrending novel ...