Author: colsonwhitehead
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for FictionWinner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for FictionFinalist for the 2019 National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist for the 2021 DUBLIN Literary AwardsLonglisted for the 2019 National Book AwardsLonglisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political FictionIn this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–and National Book Award–winning #1 … Pulitzer Prize–and National Book Award–winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow–era Florida. As the Civil Rights…
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this Pulitzer Prize-winning follow-up to The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel … juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow “delinquent” Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that…
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this #1 New York Times bestseller chronicles a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins.Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp … fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground…
A New York Times bestseller from a Pulitzer Prize–winning author! Mark Spitz fights to survive and adapt in the aftermath of global devastation. This chilling, beautifully written vision of a postapocalyptic world has over 2,400 five-star ratings on Goodreads.