Events

Acclaimed author Colson Whitehead will deliver the 2024 William Gifford Lecture

Nov. 12, 2024, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Location:

Taylor Hall 102

Colson Whitehead, who has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice, is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad (an Oprah’s Book Club selection and winner of the 2016 National Book Award and 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) and also, among other titles, the author of The Nickel Boys, winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Sponsored by the English Department and the William Gifford Fund for Writers-in-Residence. Open to the public, no reservations required.

Colson Whitehead, a person with dark hair and a dark mustache, looks at the viewer.
Photo: Chris Close