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Film, Video Colson Whitehead: 2012 National Book Festival

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Title

  • Colson Whitehead: 2012 National Book Festival

Summary

  • Colson Whitehead appears at the 2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival.

Names

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

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2012-09-22.

Headings

  • -  Literature

Notes

  • -  Classification: Language and Literature.
  • -  Colson Whitehead.
  • -  Recorded on 2012-09-22.
  • -  Kids, Families.
  • -  After graduating from Harvard, Colson Whitehead began his writing career at the Village Voice, where he wrote reviews of television, books and music. His first novel, "The Intuitionist," concerned intrigue in New York's Department of Elevator Inspectors and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His 2006 novel, "Apex Hides the Hurt," is about a "nomenclature consultant," who gets an assignment to name a town; it won a PEN/Oakland Award. "Sag Harbor" (2009) was a Pen/Faulkner Award finalist. His new novel is "Zone One," about a plague of zombies.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021692185

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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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, -09-22, 2012. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021692185/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & National Book Festival, U. S. (2012) Colson Whitehead:National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-22. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021692185/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and U.S National Book Festival. Colson Whitehead:National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-22, 2012. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021692185/>.