Colson Whitehead
United States
Colson Whitehead joins us a pre-Festival Special Event on September 16, 2026.
COLSON WHITEHEAD is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twelve works of fiction and non-fiction, and is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, for The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad, which also won the National Book Award. A recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, he lives in New York City.