The Power of Story with Colson Whitehead

We are thrilled to offer a program featuring two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad, The Nickel Boys, Harlem Shuffle, The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and a collection of essays, Whitehead is only the fourth writer to win two Pulitzers in the Fiction category (for Underground Railroad in 2018 and The Nickel Boys in 2020). His highly anticipated latest, Crook Manifesto, is a darkly funny tale of a city under siege, but also a sneakily searching portrait of the meaning of family.

His reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Harper’s, and Granta. Whitehead has received a MacArthur Fellowship and Guggenheim Fellowship and the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, among others.

This premier event is made possible by the Woodridge Public Library's participation in Illinois Libraries Present, a statewide collaboration. To request accommodations, please email illinoislibrariespresent@gmail.com.

This is a free virtual program using Zoom.

Register: https://bit.ly/ILP_ColsonWhitehead

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