Frontier Forum

An Evening with Colson Whitehead

ABOUT THE EVENT

In this talk, based on his meticulously researched and searing novel The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead discusses the real-life history and inspiration behind his acclaimed novel that tells the heart-wrenching story of two boys living under Jim Crow at one of the country’s most notorious juvenile correction institutions. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged but not required. 

Lecture

Marshall Student Center – Oval Theater – 2nd Floor

Join us for a book signing with Colson Whitehead immediately following the lecture.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged but not required.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad (an Oprah’s Book Club selection and winner of the 2016 National Book Award and 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction), The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and one collection of essays, The Colossus of New York. He was named New York’s 11th State Author in 2018. His New York Times bestseller The Nickel Boys won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (making him only the fourth writer to win two Pulitzers in the Fiction category), the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Fiction, and the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. His latest bestselling novel, Harlem Shuffle, was published in the fall of 2021.  

Colson Whitehead’s reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in a number of publications, such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Harper’s and Granta.  
He has received a MacArthur Fellowship, A Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, the Dos Passos Prize, a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and the 2020 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.  

He has taught at the University of Houston, Columbia University, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, New York University, Princeton University, Wesleyan University, and been a Writer-in-Residence at Vassar College, the University of Richmond, and the University of Wyoming.  
He lives in New York City. 

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parking

Guest parking is available in Lots 3A, 3B, and 3C with additional parking in Crescent Hill Parking Garage (CHG).  Please look for signs to indicate Frontier Forum Parking. 
 
For more information about guest parking and accessible parking options, please visit the Parking Services website.

Directions

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