![]() ![]() ![]() Above all, Whitehead’s 2017 publication was chosen for Oprah Winfrey’s book club - a machine for creating bestsellers. But this novel was something else: it not only won the Pulitzer and the National Book Award: it was also praised by Barack Obama. He had enough in the bank to live a comfortable life. Before it came out, he had already published six novels and two works of non-fiction, achieving the rare balance of being both respected by critics and selling reasonably well. The Underground Railroad was the title that established him. The second time happened during the pandemic and I was on to other things,” he recalls. “The first time, I was in a good mood for a whole year. In 2020, he did it again with The Nickel Boys. ![]() Getting my license was one of them.” Whitehead won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2017 for his novel The Underground Railroad. But I felt bad for my wife, because she always has to take the kids, go shopping… then, when the pandemic was over, I decided to try some new things. I grew up in New York, so I never really had to drive. Last year, Colson Whitehead - at the age of 52 - decided that it was a good time to get his driver’s license. ![]()
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