TOWSON, MD—Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead is coming to Baltimore County.

“An Afternoon with Colson Whitehead” will take place at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 6, 2025 at Goucher College’s Kraushaar Auditorium.

Colson Whitehead has established himself as one of the most versatile and innovative writers in contemporary literature. The first person to win back-to-back Pulitzer Prizes in fiction for consecutive works, he has dazzled readers across the globe with his #1 New York Times–bestselling novel, The Underground Railroad, as well as The Nickel Boys, Harlem Shuffle, and Crook Manifesto.

Several of Whitehead’s novels have been adapted for TV and film, including producer Barry Jenkins’ Underground Railroad limited TV series on Amazon, MGM Orion’s Oscar-nominated film adaptation of The Nickel Boys, and HBO Max’s TV series on Sag Harbor.

Time magazine named Whitehead one of the “100 Most Influential People” in 2017, the Library of Congress awarded him the Prize for American Fiction in 2020, and in 2021 he received the National Humanities Medal for his contributions “as an American literary icon.”

Book sales and signings will follow. The event is free, but registration is required. Tickets will be available starting at 12 p.m. (noon) on Monday, February 24, 2025 at the Goucher Box Office.

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