Thuso Mbedu stars as Cora in The Underground Railroad During their respective childhoods, Jenkins and Whitehead envisioned the Underground Railroad as an actual railroad, deep underground that ...

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From the first page of Colson Whitehead’s extraordinary novel The Underground Railroad I knew I was reading something ground-shifting. I’ve been a student of African-American history since ...

Colson Whitehead's brutal, brilliant, award-winning novel The Underground Railroad re-imagines the routes that American slaves took to freedom as a literal series of tracks, platforms and covert ...

Colson Whitehead’s novel is the subject of the historical drama written and directed by Barry Jenkins.

Whitehead, a 50-year-old New Yorker, won the 2017 prize in the same category for his book The Underground Railroad. Before him, only Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner and John Updike had won the ...

Whitehead is the author of the novels “The Intuitionist,” “John Henry Days,” “Apex Hides the Hurt,” “Sag Harbor,” “The Underground Railroad,” “The Nickel Boys,” and “Harlem Shuffle,” among others. He ...

The violence committed against boys – especially Black boys – in so-called reform schools across the Jim Crow South were acts of absolute horror. So, in some ways, it makes sense that director RaMell ...

As part of the St. Louis Literary Award series of programs honoring the 2025 award recipient Colson Whitehead, the Saint Louis University 2025 Campus Read Speaker Series will focus on his ...

Colson Whitehead is a highly acclaimed, African American author. His novel The Underground Railroad (2016) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It was subsequently adapted into a 2021 TV series ...