september, 2017
Event Details
Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Undergrond Railroad (an Oprah’s Book Club selection), The
Event Details
Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Undergrond Railroad (an Oprah’s Book Club selection), 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.
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 was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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.
Time
(Tuesday) 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
John H. Mulroy Civic Center
421 Montgomery St, Syracuse, NY 13202
Organizer
The Friends of the Central Library