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Born 6 Nov 1969
Also known as Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead
Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist. His works include his 1999 debut The Intuitionist; The Underground Railroad (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; and The Nickel Boys, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020, making him one of only four writers ever to win the prize twice. He has also published two books of nonfiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship.
Source: Colson Whitehead on Wikipedia.
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One of the pullquotes on the front cover of this novel heralds it as “wildly inventive.” (Another is written by Barack Obama.) That reviewer must have read a different copy, because nowhere here do I see the invention, except in Whitehead’s repetitive, fetish…