Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad is a powerful and thought-provoking novel that follows the story of Cora, a slave in the antebellum South. After escaping from a Georgia plantation, Cora embarks on a harrowing journey of freedom, riding the
Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead is an American novelist. He is the author of nine novels, including 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.