Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad, which in 2016 won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the National Book Award and was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, as well as The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and The Colossus of New York. He is also a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a recipient of the MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships. He lives in New York City.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE, THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, THE ALA
ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL AND THE HURSTON/WRIGHT AWARD
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW,
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, WASHINGTON POST, TIME, PEOPLE, NPR AND
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME
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“Terrific.” —Barack Obama
“An American masterpiece.” —NPR
“Stunningly daring.” —The New York Times Book Review
"A triumph." —The Washington Post
“Potent. . . . Devastating. . . . Essential.” —Michiko
Kakutani, The New York Times
“Whitehead's best work and an important American novel.” —The
Boston Globe
“Electrifying. . . . Tense, graphic, uplifting and informed, this
is a story to share and remember.” —People
“Heart-stopping.” —Oprah Winfrey
“The Underground Railroad is inquiring into the very soul of
American democracy. . . . A stirring exploration of the American
experiment.” —The Wall Street Journal
“A brilliant reimagining of antebellum America.” —The New
Republic
“Colson Whitehead’s book blends the fanciful and the horrific, the
deeply emotional and the coolly intellectual. Whathe comes up with
is an American masterpiece.” —Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto
“The Underground Railroad enters the pantheon of . . . the Great
American Novels. . . . A wonderful reminder of whatgreat literature
is supposed to do: open our eyes, challengeus, and leave us changed
by the end.” —Esquire
“[Whitehead] is the best living American novelist.” —Chicago
Tribune
“Masterful, urgent. . . . One of the finest novels written aboutour
country’s still unabsolved original sin.” —USA Today
“Brilliant. . . . An instant classic that makes vivid the darkest,
most horrific corners of America’s history of brutality against
black people.” —HuffPost
“Singular, utterly riveting. . . . You’ll be shaken and stunned by
Whitehead’s imaginative brilliance. . . . The Underground Railroad
is a book both timeless and timely. It is a book for now; it is a
book that is necessary.” —BuzzFeed
“Whitehead is a writer of extraordinary stylistic powers. . . .
[The Underground Railroad] offers many testaments to Whitehead’s
considerable talents and examines a deeply relevant and disturbing
period of American history.” —The Christian Science Monitor
“[An] ingenious novel. . . . A successful amalgam: a realistically
imagined slave narrative and a crafty allegory; a tense adventure
tale and a meditation on America’s defining values.” —Minneapolis
Star Tribune
“Whitehead’s novel unflinchingly turns our attention to the
foundations of the America we know now.” —Elle
“Perfectly balances the realism of its subject with fabulist
touches that render it freshly illuminating.” —Time
“I haven’t been as simultaneously moved and entertained bya book
for many years. This is a luminous, furious, wildly inventive tale
that not only shines a bright light on one of the darkest periods
of history, but also opens up thrilling new vistas for the form of
the novel itself.” —The Guardian
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