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The Underground Railroad is the sixth novel by American Author Colson Whitehead. It is the winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the 2016 National Book Award for fiction, and the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. The novel tells the story of Cora and Caesar, two slaves who make a bid for freedom from their Georgia Plantations by following the Underground Railroad, which in the novel is an actual subway as opposed to a series of safe houses and secret routes. The novel has received a number of awards, including the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and 2016 National book award for fiction. The previous book to win both the Pulitzer and the national book prizes was The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx in 1993. The novel received positive reviews from critics. The story is told in the third person, focusing mainly on Cora. Scattered single chapters also focus on Cora’s mother Mabel, the Slavecatcher Ridgeway, a reluctant slave sympathizer named Ethel, and Cora’s fellow slave Caesar. Cora is a slave on a plantation in Georgia and an outcast after Mabel ran off without her. She harbors a great deal of resentment towards Mabel for escaping, although readers later learn that her mother actually died from a snake bite. Ridgewat takes Cora back toward Georgia, detouring through Tennessee to return another slave to his master. The novel has received a number of awards including the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2016 National book award for fiction. The Underground Railroad was also shortlisted in May 2017 for the Arthur.
About Colson Whitehead:
Colson Whitehead was born on November 6, 1969. He is a New-York novelist. He is the author of six novels including his debut work, the 1999 novel the intuitionist, and National Book award, the Underground Railroad for which he won the 2016 National book award for fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. He has also published two books of non-fiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship. Whitehead was born in New York City on November 6, 1969, and grew up in Manhattan. He attended Trinity in Manhattan. White head graduated from Harvard University in 1991 in college he became friends with poet Kevin Young. His novel “The underground railroad” was a selection of Orpha’s book club and was also chosen by President Barack Obama as one of five books on his summer vacation reading list. In January 2017, it was awarded the Carnegie Medal for excellence in fiction at the American Library Association Mid-Winter conference in Atlanta, GA.
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