Colson Whitehead reading and book signing November 18, 2003

Colson Whitehead was born in New York City in 1969. A graduate of Harvard University, his journalism has appeared in Vibe, Spin, Newsday, and The Village Voice, where he was a television columnist. His first novel, The Intuitionist, won the QPB New Voice Award. He was an Ernest Hemingway/PEN Award Finalist. In 2002, The MacArthur Foundation named him one of 24 winners of a $500,000 genius award. His second novel, John Henry Days, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.