Tag: “The Underground Railroad”

Nation & World
Colson Whitehead ’91 wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction

Novelist Colson Whitehead joins William Faulkner, John Updike, and Booth Tarkington as the fourth to garner the Pulitzer Prize for fiction award twice.

May 5, 2020

2 minutes
Nation & World
Strong Pulitzer showing for Harvard

Harvard University was well-represented in this year’s Pulitzer Prizes, announced Monday, with honors for sociologist Matthew Desmond in general nonfiction, David Fahrenthold ’00 in national reporting, Colson Whitehead ’91 in fiction, and composer Du Yun who received a Ph.D.

April 10, 2017

2 minutes
Nation & World
An imaginative leap into real-life horror

Colson Whitehead ’91, author of the acclaimed novel “The Underground Railroad,” talks about Harvard, writing, and slavery.

September 20, 2016

6 minutes