*Oprah Winfrey chose Colson Whitehead‘s “The Underground Railroad” as the next title for Oprah’s Book Club. The title was originally set for release Sept. 13, but the publisher moved its release date ...

Colson Whitehead's last two books won Pulitzer Prizes. "The Underground Railroad" was about slavery and escape. "The Nickel Boys" was about a reform school in Florida where boys were brutalized. So it ...

Whitehead’s 2016 novel, winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, is every bit as devastating and brilliant as you expect it to be; after finishing it recently, I found I needed ...

Barry Jenkins, director of the Academy Award winning film “Moonlight,” has signed on to write and direct a drama series for Amazon based on Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad.” Amazon ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Colson Whitehead is an Author with seven videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2002 Forum. The year with the most videos was 2020 with two videos. The ...

This is fifth book in Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 and the first recommendation since February 2015′s pick of Cynthia Bond’s Ruby. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead is a powerful novel about a ...

"Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they ...