Colson Whitehead was born and raised in New York City.
His first novel, The Intuitionist, won the Quality Paperback Book Club's New Voices Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His novel John Henry Days, an investigation of the legendary folk hero, came out in 2001 and won the Young Lions Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
The Colossus of New York, a collection of impressionistic essays about the city, was published in 2003.
His most recent novel, Apex Hides the Hurt, was published in March 2006.
Colson Whitehead lives in Brooklyn and is a member of the Board of Trustees of PEN American Center.
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