Colson Whitehead
Born: 11-06-1969
Colson Whitehead is an acclaimed American author known for his inventive storytelling and exploration of race and history. He gained widespread recognition with "The Underground Railroad," which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Whitehead's diverse body of work spans genres, including speculative fiction, crime, and literary fiction. His insightful narratives and distinctive style have made him one of contemporary literature's most influential voices.
Book summaries for books written by Colson Whitehead
Quotes
"Slowly, slowly, the world we knew had become the world we’d feared."
He looked at it for a moment, shifted his focus. What was he supposed to do with it? Find a way to press on? Pretend that the flash drive represented hope?
They seemed just as goddamn unhappy to whine and moan about their depleted biosphere as they were in contemplating its utopian unspoiledness.
You're not the first to have a bad day, and you won't be the last.
"When you’re trying to understand people better, it helps to look at the things they throw away."
Survival, ah yes. It was no longer fashionable to use that term, as if physical existence were humanity's highest calling and nonexistence some kind of spiritual failure.
Faces were strictly taboo for nostalgia junkies.
Eventually, their eyes respected their territory and their intentions joined forces. All was smooth sailing from then on.
Having a gun is an old-fashioned way to talk to people you don’t talk to anymore.
"You've got to find something to hold on to, something to do, I think," Gary said. "Keep moving, keep living."
"What's the point of doing something if you're not pretending?"
That's the thing with the dead. They don't give back. Not much of anything.