The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

- Last updated: November 16, 2022
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"Colson Whitehead was born in 1969, and was raised in Manhattan."
USA Today. "Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys earned him multiple prestigious accolades, but it didn't come without a price."
Vox. "Colson Whitehead just became the fourth writer ever to win two Pulitzers for fiction."
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"The Underground Railroad author’s powerful new novel evokes the dark realities of a Florida reform school in the 60s"
"In 'The Nickel Boys,' Colson Whitehead Depicts a Real-Live House of Horrors"
Vanity Fair. "The Pulitzer Prize–winning author's new novel, inspired by the atrocities committed at Florida's Dozier School for Boys, lays bare America’s history of state-sanctioned violence."
"Whitehead’s follow-up to his Pulitzer-winning Underground Railroad exhumes the unmarked graves of a hellish Florida reform school."