Colson Whitehead (Novelist) – Overview, Biography

Colson Whitehead
Name:Colson Whitehead
Occupation: Novelist
Gender:Male
Birth Day: November 6,
1969
Age: 51
Birth Place: New York City,
United States
Zodiac Sign:Scorpio

Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead was born on November 6, 1969 in New York City, United States (51 years old). Colson Whitehead is a Novelist, zodiac sign: Scorpio. Nationality: United States. Approx. Net Worth: Undisclosed.

Trivia

His fifth book, the 2011 post-apocalyptic novel Zone One, earned a place on the New York Times best-sellers list. He received the coveted MacAurthur Fellowship in 2002. 

Net Worth 2020

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Before Fame

He earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University. His first job post-college was writing for The Village Voice. 

Biography

Biography Timeline

1969

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

2014

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

2016

His 2016 novel, The Underground Railroad, was a selection of Oprah’s Book Club 2.0, and was also chosen by President Barack Obama as one of five books on his summer vacation reading list. In January 2017 it was awarded the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction at the American Library Association Mid-Winter conference in Atlanta, GA. Colson was also honored with the 2017 Hurston/Wright Award for fiction presented by the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation. 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.”

2019

Whitehead’s seventh novel, The Nickel Boys, was published in July 2019. The novel was inspired by the real-life story of the Dozier School for Boys in Florida, where children convicted of minor offences suffered violent abuse. In conjunction with the publication of The Nickel Boys, Whitehead was featured on the cover of TIME Magazine for the July 8, 2019 edition, alongside the strap-line “America’s Storyteller”. The Nickel Boys won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. 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.” It is Whitehead’s second win, making him the fourth writer in history to have won the prize twice.

2020

In 2020 Whitehead criticized the Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library program, launched in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, writing on Twitter: “They scan books illegally and put them online. It’s not a library.”

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Currently, Colson Whitehead is 52 years, 10 months and 20 days old. Colson Whitehead will celebrate 53rd birthday on a Sunday 6th of November 2022.

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