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Film, Video Colson Whitehead: 2009 National Book Festival

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Title

  • Colson Whitehead: 2009 National Book Festival

Summary

  • Fiction and fantasy author Colson Whitehead appears at the National Book Festival.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • National Book Festival (U.S.), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2009-09-26.

Headings

  • -  Literature

Notes

  • -  Classification: Language and Literature.
  • -  Colson Whitehead.
  • -  Recorded on 2009-09-26.
  • -  Kids, Families.
  • -  Teachers.
  • -  After Colson Whitehead graduated from college, he started working at the Village Voice, where he wrote reviews of television, books and music. His first novel, "The Intuitionist" (1999), concerned intrigue in the Department of Elevator Inspectors and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and a winner of the Quality Paperback Book Club's New Voices Award. "John Henry Days" followed in 2001, an investigation of the steel-driving man of American folklore. It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. "Apex Hides the Hurt" (2006) is a novel about a "nomenclature consultant" who gets an assignment to name a town, and was a recipient of the PEN/Oakland Award. "Sag Harbor," published in 2009, is a novel about teenagers hanging out in Sag Harbor, Long Island, during the summer of 1985. He calls it his "autobiographical fourth novel."

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021692100

Online Format

  • video
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and U.S National Book Festival. Colson Whitehead:National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-26, 2009. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021692100/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & National Book Festival, U. S. (2009) Colson Whitehead:National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-26. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021692100/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and U.S National Book Festival. Colson Whitehead:National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-26, 2009. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021692100/>.