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Colson Whitehead

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An American novelist. He is the author of 8 novels, including 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 (2019), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020.

title	form	genre	written	owned
The Intuitionist	novel	SF	1999
John Henry Days	novel	historical	2001
Apex Hides the Hurt	novel	comedy	2006
Sag Harbor	novel	(undefined)	2009
Zone One	novel	post-apocalyptic	2011
The Underground Railroad	novel	historical	2016
The Nickel Boys	novel	historical	2019
Harlem Shuffle	novel	crime	2021

award	category	for	year
National Book Award (US)	Fiction	The Underground Railroad	2016
Pulitzer Prize	Fiction	The Underground Railroad	2017
Pulitzer Prize	Fiction	The Nickel Boys	2020

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