The Power of Story with Colson Whitehead

We are thrilled to welcome two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author Colson Whitehead to our Illinois libraries. The New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad, The Nickel Boys, and many others, Whitehead is only the fourth writer to win two Pulitzers in the Fiction category (for The Underground Railroad in 2018 and The Nickel Boys in 2020).

His reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Harper’s, and more. Whitehead has received a MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, among many others. He has taught at Columbia University, Princeton University, Wesleyan University, and several others, and has been Writer-in-Residence at Vassar College, the University of Richmond, and University of Wyoming.

This event is made possible by Illinois Libraries Present, a statewide collaboration among public libraries offering premier events. ILP is funded in part by a grant awarded by the Illinois State Library, a department of the Office of Secretary of State, using funds provided by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services,
under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA).

ILP is committed to inclusion and accessibility. To request accommodations, please email illinoislibrariespresent@gmail.com.

Please use the following link to register for the event: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZQy7SkyDSy-fXbYwQ3wjjg