The Pulitzer Prize isn’t the only major literary award, but it is the one that seems to get the most attention. The Old Man and the Sea. To Kill a Mockingbird. The Optimist’s Daughter. The Color Purple. Lonesome Dove. Beloved. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Gilead. The Road. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2023-04-28 11:05:00 UTC ]
Colson Whitehead has the #4 book in the country with ‘The Nickel Boys,’ his follow-up to ‘The Underground Railroad.’ Plus the second Adventure Zone graphic novels debuts on our trade paper and hardcover lists, and ‘Geddy Lee’s Big Beautiful Book of Bass’ lands at #8 in hardcover nonfiction seven... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-07-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
No surreal elements disrupt the grim progress of this follow-up to “The Underground Railroad.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-07-09 16:10:36 UTC ]
Easter and Passover 2017 coincided with each other, and with related new releases, including ‘The True Jesus,’ #2 in Hardcover Nonfiction. Plus the Pulitzer announcements drive sales of ‘The Underground Railroad’ and other winners, and a favorite Star Wars villain returns. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-04-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Colson Whitehead won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in fiction Monday for “The Underground Railroad.” It caps a sweep of accolades that the book has received since its publication by Doubleday in August 2016, including winning the National Book Award in November and being selected by Oprah Winfrey for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2017-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The author Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award for fiction this year for his novel “The Underground Railroad.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2016-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a year plagued by racial tensions, Colson Whitehead took the National Book Award for fiction for his novel "The Underground Railroad," a visceral and creative imagining of a female slave's escape from slavery. Although it takes years to write a book and bring it to publication, the National... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2016-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
In its debut week, print units sales for the #1 book in the country, ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts 1 and 2,’ are more than double those for the next 99 books combined. Plus Colson Whitehead’s ’The Underground Railroad' gets the Oprah nod and the #3 slot in Hardcover Fiction, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
There are a lot of heavy hitters at this year's BEA, but four titles consistently came up in conversations with book buyers: Colson Whitehead's 'The Underground Railroad,' 'The Nix' by Nathan Hill, 'Commonwealth' by Ann Patchett, and 'The Girls' by Emma Cline. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Although Colson Whitehead says that he wrote The Underground Railroad (Doubleday, Sept.) “pretty quickly” last year, this novel has been 15 years in the making. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]