Colson Whitehead
Today in History

By The Associated Press May. 04, 2021 12:00 AM EDT
Today in History Today is Tuesday, May 4, the 124th day of 2021. There are 241 days left in the year. Today’s...

This combination photo shows the cover of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel "The Nickel Boys," left, and a portrait of author Colson Whitehead. Whitehead became the first fiction writer to win Pulitzer Prizes for back to back novels. “The Nickel Boys,” his followup to “Underground Railroad,” won the Pulitzer in April and comes out in paperback this week. He also managed to finish a crime novel, with the working title “Harlem Shuffle,” that he began more than a year ago. (Doubleday, left, and Madeline Whitehead/Doubleday via AP)
An eventful year for Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead

By Hillel Italie Jun. 30, 2020 08:16 AM EDT

In this Thursday, June 25, 2020, photo, Karen Hayes works in her office in Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tenn. The independent bookstore, owned by Hayes and novelist Ann Patchett, opened and thrived while others were closing their doors and is once again defying the odds during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
Novelist Patchett has Nashville bookstore customers swooning

By Travis Loller Jun. 26, 2020 12:04 PM EDT

In a photograph of a computer screen during a staff Zoom call reporter Kyle Hopkins, bottom, and other staff members of the Anchorage Daily News receive word of the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service on Monday, May 4, 2020 in Anchorage. Hopkins was the lead reporter on a series of stories that looked at failures in the criminal justice system in rural Alaska. (Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP)
'Riveting' coverage of Alaska policing wins Pulitzer Prize

By Jennifer Peltz May. 04, 2020 08:30 AM EDT