From the first page of Colson Whitehead’s extraordinary novel The ... In the year since I first read this book, it has been affirming to see how it’s been embraced, winning the Pulitzer ...
In 2019, Whitehead spoke with Dave Davies when the book was released. It's set in the early '60s, based on the true story of the Dozier reform school in Florida, where many boys were beaten and ...
Colson Whitehead mines familiar thematic seams. There’s the inseparability of time, place and individual — New York City, Whitehead’s hometown, is as alive as any character in his new book ...
Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross' big screen interpretation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Nickel Boys, had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival's Herzog Theatre on ...
The child is Elwood (played initially by Ethan Cole Sharp, and as a teen by Ethan Herisse), and we gradually learn that he is a book-loving ... Based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning ...
NEW YORK - Colson Whitehead became the rare author to receive Pulitzers for consecutive books when his novel about a brutal Florida reform school during the Jim Crow era, “The Nickel Boys,” was ...