Film, Video Colson Whitehead: National Book Festival 2020
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Title
- Colson Whitehead: National Book Festival 2020
Summary
- In "The Nickel Boys" (Anchor), a bravura follow-up to "The Underground Railroad" and his first Pulitzer Prize, Colson Whitehead dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. It won a second Pulitzer for him in 2020. Interview with Marie Arana, literary director of the Library of Congress.
Event Date
- September 26, 2020
Running Time
- 34 minutes 48 seconds
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