The underground railroad : a novel / Colson Whitehead.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385542364
- ISBN: 0385542364
- Physical Description: 306 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
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Subject: | Underground Railroad > Fiction. Fugitive slaves > United States > Fiction. United States > History > 19th century > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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Coldwater Branch | FIC WHI (Text) | 35401425013199 | Display | Available | - |
Author Notes
The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club) : A Novel
Colson Whitehead was born on November 6, 1969. He graduated from Harvard College and worked at the Village Voice writing reviews of television, books, and music. His first novel, The Intuitionist, won the Quality Paperback Book Club's New Voices Award. His other books include The Colossus of New York, Sag Harbor, and Zone One. He won the Young Lions Fiction Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for John Henry Days, the PEN/Oakland Award for Apex Hides the Hurt, and the National Book Award for fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Underground Railroad. His reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Harper's and Granta. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, and a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. (Bowker Author Biography)