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Colson Whitehead, Janey Lack Fiction Reading
Jan
31
2013
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Colson Whitehead's novels and essays tackle the questions of race, class, and commercial culture with candor and wit. He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a recipient of several awards including the Whiting Writers Award and the MacArthur Genius?쳌 Award. He is the author of six books. His first novel, The Intuitionist, was published in 1998 and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. According to Time it's the freshest racial allegory since Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man" and GQ named it one of the novels of the millennium.? John Henry Days, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was published in 2001 and his non-fiction homage to New York, The Colossus of New York, was published in 2003. His most recent novel Zone One was published in October 2011. The Washington Post described this latest bestseller as a zombie story with brains?쳌 and The New York Times selected it as an Editors Pick calling it cool?쳌 and thoughtful.
Colsonâ??s reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in a great many publications, such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper's and Granta. He has spoken across the country and has taught courses at several universities including Columbia, Princeton and the University of Houston. Esquire magazine has called him the coolest writer in America?쳌 and more than 116,000 people follow him on Twitter.