The Peter S. Firestone Society in Mathey and Rockefeller Colleges, the Humanities Council, and the Lewis Center for the Arts are pleased to welcome Colson Whitehead to campus for a reading from his new book, The Underground Railroad. Recent winner of the National Book Award, The Underground Railroad is a suspenseful tale of escape and pursuit, combining elements of fantasy and the counter-factual with an unflinching, painfully truthful depiction of American slavery.
March 6, 2017
4:30 p.m. McCormick 101
Doors open at 4:20 p.m.
Books available for purchase. Book signing and reception immediately following the reading in the McCormick Lobby
Free and Open to the Public
Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad (an Oprah’s Book Club selection and winner of the National Book Award), The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and one collection of essays, The Colossus of New York.
Colson Whitehead’s reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in a number of publications, such as the New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Harper’s and Granta.
He has received a MacArthur Fellowship, A Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, the Dos Passos Prize, a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
He has taught at the University of Houston, Columbia University, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, New York University, Princeton University, Wesleyan University, and been a Writer-in-Residence at Vassar College, the University of Richmond, and the University of Wyoming.
He lives in New York City.
