![]() ![]() By first imitating and then violating their conventions, Whitehead attempts to transcend the limits of the formulas of the genres in which he seems to write. Understanding Colson Whitehead unravels the parallel structures found within Whitehead's books from his 1999 debut The Intuitionist through 2019's The Nickel Boys, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Whitehead, best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Underground Railroad, bids readers to accompany him on challenging, often open-ended literary excursions designed to reexamine-and frequently defy-accepted notions of truth. ![]() Maus argues that they are linked by their skepticism toward the ostensible wisdom inherited from past generations and the various forms of "stories" that transmit it. Although Whitehead's widely divergent books complicate overarching categorization, Derek C. In 2020 Colson Whitehead became the youngest recipient of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. ![]() ![]() An inviting point of entrance into the truth seeking, genre defying novels of the award-winning author ![]()
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