Kolson Uaytkhed

Colson Whitehead is an American writer. He was born in 1969 in New York City and spent his childhood in Manhattan. He studied at the highly prestigious Trinity School and graduated from Harvard University in 1991. While attending university, he befriended the poet Kevin Young. Soon afterward, he began writing his column for the local newspaper The Village Voice, where he reviewed television shows, books, and music. It was then that he began writing in the genres of fiction and nonfiction. His first novel, "The Intuitionist," was published in 1999. It was a detective novel about the investigation into the cause of an elevator fall. In 2001, his historical novel John Henry Days was published. The events take place 150 years earlier and tell the story of the folk hero John Henry, whose heroism consisted in an extraordinary level of endurance, which led to his death from exhaustion. Here, a parallel is drawn between the destructive impact of the era of industrialization in the 19th century and the development of digital technologies in the 21st century. The novel Apex Hides the Hurt, published in 2006, tells a comic story about the renaming of a city. In the novel "Sag Harbor" (2009), he addresses the theme of racial inequality for the first time. And in "Zone One" (2011), we see a zombie apocalypse. Finally, in 2016, the novel The Underground Railroad was published, which received many positive reviews and literary awards, mainly because it is the first book since Uncle Tom's Cabin and was written not by a sentimental white lady but by a representative of African Americans. In addition, the author wrote the nonfiction books The Colossus of New York: A City in 13 Parts (2003) and "The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky & Death" (2014).