Born: 1969, New York CityLives: Manhattan, New York
Colson Whitehead was born in New York City, attended Trinity School and graduated from Harvard in 1991. After college he wrote for The Village Voice while working on his first novels.
His debut, The Intuitionist, came out in 1999. He has since written novels in very different genres, from the zombie story Zone One to the Harlem crime novels Harlem Shuffle and Crook Manifesto. He lives in Manhattan and has a home in Sag Harbor, Long Island.