Colson Whitehead is the New York Times bestselling author of The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and one collection of essays, The Colossus of New York. A Pulitzer Prize finalist and a recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, he lives in New York City.
The freshest racial allegory since Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye -- Walter Kirn Time The freshest racial allegory since Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye -- Walter Kirn Time Ingenious and starkly original ... Literary reputations may not always rise and fall as predictably as elevators, bit if there's any justice in the world of fiction, Colson Whitehead's should be heading toward the upper floors New York Times Book Review Ingenious and starkly original ... Literary reputations may not always rise and fall as predictably as elevators, bit if there's any justice in the world of fiction, Colson Whitehead's should be heading toward the upper floors New York Times Book Review Magical ... The Intuitionist ranks alongside Catch-22, V, The Bluest Eye and other groundbreaking first novels ... Whitehead shares Heller's sense of the absurd, Pynchon's operatic expansiveness and Morrison's deconstruction of race and racism San Francisco Chronicle Magical ... The Intuitionist ranks alongside Catch-22, V, The Bluest Eye and other groundbreaking first novels ... Whitehead shares Heller's sense of the absurd, Pynchon's operatic expansiveness and Morrison's deconstruction of race and racism San Francisco Chronicle Whitehead's prose is graceful and often lyrical, and his elevator underworld is a complex, lovingly realized creation New Yorker Whitehead's prose is graceful and often lyrical, and his elevator underworld is a complex, lovingly realized creation New Yorker