Wed, 11/15/2023 - 5:30pm The Chapel, 109 Herty Drive Author Colson Whitehead will visit UGA and Athens for the department of history’s Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture, which will be included in the university's Spotlight on the Arts festival. In addition to his public talk in the UGA Chapel, Whitehead will visit with classes at UGA and at Cedar Shoals High School in Athens. Whitehead is the number-one New York Times bestselling author of 11 books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys. His reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York magazine, Harper's, Granta, and many other publications. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Award, the Carnegie Medal for Fiction, and numerous other honors. Whitehead's latest novel is Crook Manifesto, the second in his Harlem Trilogy. It was published in July 2023. Whitehead's visit is presented by the Ferdinand Phinizy Lectureship in the Department of History, in partnership with the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. poster for Colson Whitehead talk Nov. 15, 2023 at the UGA Chapel (2.45 MB)
