Pulitzer-winning author Colson Whitehead is 2024 CCNY Langston Hughes Medalist
Whitehead won his first Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for his novel " The Underground Railroad ."
- Whitehead won his first Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for his novel " The Underground Railroad ."
- A #1 New York Times bestseller, it also earned him the National Book Award and the Carnegie Medal for Fiction.
- His second Pulitzer came two years later for " The Nickel Boys ," a novel inspired by the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Florida.
- In 2018, New York State named him its New York State Author, and in 2020 the Library of Congress awarded him its Prize for American Fiction.