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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Author of "The Nickel Boys," "The Underground Railroad" and other popular books, Colson Whitehead will be in St. Louis to ...

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 ...

NEW YORK - Colson Whitehead became the rare author to receive Pulitzers ... Three years ago, he won for his Civil War era novel “The Underground Railroad.” Pulitzer judges praised “The Nickel Boys” as ...