Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead\xa0is the only novelist to win a Pulitzer Prize for consecutive books:\xa0The Underground Railroad, now a television miniseries directed by Oscar-winner Barry Jenkins, and\xa0The Nickel Boys. His novels span a wide range of genres, including satire (Apex Hides the Hurt), post-apocalyptic zombie horror (Zone One), and an autobiographical coming-of-age story (Sag Harbor, which is slated for an HBO adaptation produced by Laurence Fishburne). With his highly-anticipated new heist novel,\xa0Harlem Shuffle, Whitehead tries his hand at yet another literary category.\xa0On September 17, 2021, Colson Whitehead talked to Alexis Madrigal about his writing before an audience at the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco, the first live on-stage program for City Arts & Lectures since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.