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  • Colson Whitehead is an American novelist. He is the author of six novels, including his debut work, the 1999 novel The Intuitionist, and The Underground Railroad, for which he won the 2016 National Book ... Wikipedia
  • Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, National Book Award for Fiction
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