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Underground Railroad Wins Pulitzer in Fiction
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced this afternoon, and while most of the attention goes to the journalism awards, the Pulitzer committee also makes awards in arts & letters. This year’s winner for fiction was Colson Whitehead’s novel The Underground Railroad. ECW’s … Continue reading
The Underground Railroad Wins the National Book Award
In October, we offered a review by Chris Mackowski of Colson Whitehead’s novel The Underground Railroad. As a quick follow-up, we wanted to report that the novel was selected last month as the recipient of the 2016 National Book Award … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Civil War in Pop Culture
Tagged Colson Whitehead, fiction, National Book Award, novels, Underground Railroad
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The Underground Railroad Offers a Harrowing Journey through American Race Relations
As a boy, Colson Whitehead imagined an underground railroad full of steam engines that ran through tunnels deep beneath the Antebellum earth on routes that stretch to indeterminate places. He was disappointed to discover the railroad—as important as it was … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Civil War in Pop Culture, Slavery
Tagged Colson Whitehead, Fresh Air, novels, NPR, Oprah Book Club, race, Underground Railroad
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