From the first page of Colson Whitehead’s extraordinary novel The Underground Railroad I knew I was reading something ground-shifting. I’ve been a student of African-American history since ...

Colson Whitehead's brutal, brilliant, award-winning novel The Underground Railroad re-imagines the routes that American slaves took to freedom as a literal series of tracks, platforms and covert ...

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Colson Whitehead’s novel is the subject of the historical drama written and directed by Barry Jenkins.

and now he’s preparing to launch this adaptation of The Underground Railroad based on the Colson Whitehead novel. Thuso Mbedu stars as Cora in The Underground Railroad During their respective ...

Colson Whitehead: I wanted to write from an early age ... Of course, Harriet Jacobs is a big referent for the character of Cora [in The Underground Railroad]. But I didn’t write that much. JD: What ...

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And that means we do as well, because in RaMell Ross' faithful but visionary adaptation of "The Nickel Boys" (for which Colson ... as Whitehead's reimagining of the Underground Railroad as an ...

Whitehead is the author of the novels “The Intuitionist,” “John Henry Days,” “Apex Hides the Hurt,” “Sag Harbor,” “The Underground Railroad,” “The Nickel Boys,” and “Harlem Shuffle,” among others. He ...

According to The Times, Colson Whitehead’s novel The Underground Railroad, which won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, has been “removed permanently” from a reading list at Essex ...

As part of the St. Louis Literary Award series of programs honoring the 2025 award recipient Colson Whitehead, the Saint Louis University 2025 Campus Read Speaker Series will focus on his ...

Previous winners of the medals, established in 2012 with a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, includes Donna ...