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Colson Whitehead was born in New York in1969 and graduated from Harvard in 1991. His first novel, THE INTUITIONIST. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
'Blithely gifteda |an ambitious, finely chiselled work.' John Updike ' Hugely talenteda |Colson Whitehead has produced an immensely rich, many stranded novel. The writing is inspired on every page. Just Wonderful! One of my books of the year.' Time Out 'Such is the buoyancy of his talent, and the protean assuredness of his prose, that the result is controlled, poignant, wittily observed and often gleefully comic.' Guardian 'Colson Whitehead's dazzling second novela |It may be nothing new to suggest that history is fiction; but the pleasure of reading this ingenious patchwork lies in how it reminds us of the vitality of those fictions.' Independent on Sunday 'a John Henry Daysa is funny and wise and sumptuously written.' New York Times 'Witty, acerbic and immensely compellinga |fresh and evocativea |Whitehead is a first-rate writer who has produced a novel that is compelling'. Financial Times
