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Biography
Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead (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. He has also published two nonfiction books. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship. Description above from the Wikipedia article Colson Whitehead, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- Hammett Prize · 2023
- National Humanities Medal · 2021
- Library of Congress Prize — American Fiction · 2020
- Orwell Prize — Political Fiction · 2020
- Pulitzer Prize — Fiction · 2020
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- Arthur C. Clarke Award · 2017
- Pulitzer Prize — Fiction · 2017
- National Book Award · 2016
- Dos Passos Prize · 2012
- PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award · 2008
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards · 2002
- MacArthur Fellows Program · 2002
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Booker Prize · 2017 · nominated
- Locus Award — Best Science Fiction Novel · 2017 · nominated
- Locus Award — Best Science Fiction Novel · 2012 · nominated
