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Encyclopedia > Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead (full name Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead) is a New York-based novelist, born in 1969. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship, often referred to as the MacArthur "Genius" grant. He was born in New York City in 1969, attended the Trinity School in New York, and graduated from Harvard College in 1991. He is a well respected journalist, whose work has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Salon and the Village Voice. Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a major private grant-making foundation based in Chicago that has awarded more than US$3 billion since its inception in 1978. ...


Bibliography

The Intuitionist is a 1999 novel by Colson Whitehead. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... John Henry Days is a 2001 Pulitzer Prize shortlisted novel [1] by African American author Colson Whitehead. ... This article is about the year 2001. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

  • Official Personal Site
  • The Bat Segundo Show #48 (podcast interview -- 2006)
  • On Point - What's in a Name? (interview, Sept. 4, 2006)

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New York State Writers Institute - Colson Whitehead (454 words)
Novelist Colson Whitehead was among the 24 winners of a $500,000 MacArthur Foundation "genius award" for 2002.
The Foundation praised Whitehead's novels for their inventive plots that weave American folklore and history into the stoires.
Colson Whitehead was born in New York City and he currently lives in Brooklyn.
Identity crisis - The Boston Globe (947 words)
Whitehead is far too clever, too assured a writer to bog his book down with such heavy lifting at the outset.
Whitehead's protagonist comes to side with the losers in history's marketing battle, the ones with the honesty to call things by their true names.
Whitehead pulls up the paving stones of American history, to uncover not the beach, but the past, in all its unwhitewashed beauty and fierceness.
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