Colson Whitehead

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5 total works indexed

1. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA: A Brief Screening Tool For Mild Cognitive Impairment

   · 2005 · cited 21,374x

2. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,519x

3. Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 10,740x

4. Segment Anything

   · 2023 · cited 9,891x

5. A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 9,223x

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Quotes

• “I ask myself: Is the outlook of this book comic? Is it tragic? Is the story best served by a first person narrator who's telling his or her story? Is it best served by an omniscient narrator who can stand above and make connections about the characters and society and politics? Part of figuring out how to tell the story is tone and voice, the same way I'm picking characters and places.”
• “My compulsion to write the story was from seeing so many people go unpunished, and so many innocents' stories being untold…”
• “I never know when I start out. You know, I sort of know what the ending is. I know where the characters always end up, and I usually have an image of the last page before I start. I'm a big outliner. But you can't know everything and you have to be open to discovery…”
• “The way he saw it, living taught you that you didn’t have to live the way you’d been taught to live. You came from one place but more important was where you decided to go.”

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Key facts

Born

Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead , ( 1969-11-06 ) November 6, 1969 (age 56) , New York City, U.S.

Occupation

Writer

Education

Harvard University ( BA )

Genres

Fiction, non-fiction

Literary movement

Afro-Surrealism

Notable works

The Intuitionist (1999), John Henry Days (2001), Zone One (2011), The Underground Railroad (2016), The Nickel Boys (2019)

Notable awards

National Book Award for Fiction (2016) , Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2017 and 2020)

Spouse

Julie Barer

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Official website

www.colsonwhitehead.com

Image

Honoree Colson Whitehead at the National Arts and Humanities Medal Ceremony on March 21, 2023, in the East Room of the White House (cropped).jpg

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