Sag Harbor
Language: English
African American Coming Of Age Contemporary Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction New York Novels Young Adult
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Apr 28, 2009
Language: English
African American Coming Of Age Contemporary Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction New York Novels Young Adult
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Apr 28, 2009
Description:
Colson Whitehead is the author of the novels "The Intuitionist," a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award; "John Henry Days," which won the Young Lions Fiction Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and "Apex Hides the Hurt," a "New York Times" Notable Book and winner of the PEN Oakland Award. He has also written a book of essays about his home town, "The Colossus of New York." A recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and a MacArthur Fellowship, he lives in Brooklyn.