Colson Whitehead

Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist. He is the author of eight novels, including his 1999 debut work ''The Intuitionist''; ''The Underground Railroad'' (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020 for ''The Nickel Boys''. He has also published two books of non-fiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Genius Grant. Provided by wikipedia