COLSON WHITEHEAD is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of 12 works of fiction and nonfiction. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for The Nickel Boys: A Novel and The Underground Railroad: A Novel, which also won the National Book Award, and a recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships. Cool Machine: A Novel (Doubleday) is his latest book. He lives in New York.
