US author Colson Whitehead has become only the fourth writer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice. The African-American author was honoured for The Nickel Boys, which chronicles the ...

In 2019, Whitehead spoke with Dave Davies when the book was released. It's set in the early '60s, based on the true story of the Dozier reform school in Florida, where many boys were beaten and ...

Colson Whitehead mines familiar thematic seams. There’s the inseparability of time, place and individual — New York City, Whitehead’s hometown, is as alive as any character in his new book ...

From the first page of Colson Whitehead’s extraordinary novel The Underground Railroad I knew I was reading something ground-shifting. I’ve been a student of African-American history since ...

The screen format is an unexpectedly old-school square, and what we see in that square is clearly through a child’s eyes as ...

His narrative debut, it’s based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2019 novel, which was inspired by the notorious Dozier School for Boys, a real-life Florida reform school that was ...

'Nickel Boys' based on Pulitzer Price-winning Colson Whitehead novel about Florida reform school ...

Colson Whitehead has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, putting him up there with only Faulkner, Updike and Booth Tarkington in the most rarefied rank of American novelists. The immensely ...

The "Nickel Boys" film was adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about Black teens at a corrupt reform school.

Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, now a feature film, is based on a notorious Florida reform school where boys were beaten and sexually abused. Originally broadcast July 16, 2019.

The astonishingly beautiful opening moments of RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” signal that this is no ordinary movie. The screen format is an unexpectedly old-school square, and what we see in ...