Colson Whitehead(1969)
ArtsArch Colson Chipp Whitehead is an American novelist. He is the author of nine novels, including his 1999 debut The Intuitionist; The Underground Railroad (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; and The Nickel Boys, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020, making him one of only four writers ever to win the prize twice. He has also published two books of nonfiction.
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Citations
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Co-winners
Shared the same award in the same year
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Sendhil Mullainathan
MacArthur Fellowship (2002)
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Paul Ginsparg
MacArthur Fellowship (2002)
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Erik Mueggler
MacArthur Fellowship (2002)
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Charles C. Steidel
MacArthur Fellowship (2002)
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Janine Jagger
MacArthur Fellowship (2002)
CJ
Camilo José Vergara
MacArthur Fellowship (2002)
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Liza Lou
MacArthur Fellowship (2002)
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Daniel S. Jurafsky
MacArthur Fellowship (2002)
LL
Liz Lerman
MacArthur Fellowship (2002)
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Brian Tucker
MacArthur Fellowship (2002)
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Toba Khedoori
MacArthur Fellowship (2002)
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George Lewis
MacArthur Fellowship (2002)
Education
Harvard University
Trinity School
Related Laureates
Other winners of the same award(s)
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Subhash Khot
MacArthur Fellowship (2016)
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
MacArthur Fellowship (2015)
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Eric Lander
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2013)
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Raj Chetty
John Bates Clark Medal (2013)
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Shwetak Patel
MacArthur Fellowship (2011)
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John Dabiri
MacArthur Fellowship (2010)
Saul Griffith
MacArthur Fellowship (2007)
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Daphne Koller
MacArthur Fellowship (2004)
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