Colson Whitehead is the author of The Intuitionist, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award; John Henry Days, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize; and The Colossus of New York and Apex Hides the Hurt, both New York Times Notable Books of the Year.
Whitehead proves himself, among other things, a poet of the American summer and its aspirations...remarkable Guardian It's rare to come across a coming-of-age novel as polished as Colson Whitehead's Sag Harbor New Statesman it is impossible not to like Sag Harbor and its genuinely empathetic, intelligent tone -- Neel Mukherjee The Times Coming-of-age tales set in the 1970s and 1980s may be two-a-penny but Colson Whitehead has managed to add a distinctive twist to the genre... It is both a universal tale of adolescent angst and a fascinating portrait of Sag Harbor -- Adrian Turpin Financial Times Whitehead's delicious language and sarcastic, clever voice fit this teenager who's slowly constructing himself New York Times