Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead 'didn’t want to do another heavy book'—but then Trump got elected
accepted the National Book Award’s coveted prize for fiction for his critically lauded novel. Bedecked in a midnight blue tuxedo with a black satin lapel, Whitehead delivered a six-minute speech that ended with a call to action: “Be kind to everybody. Make art. Fight the power.
The novel is inspired by the Dozier School for Boys, a century-old reform school in Marianna, Florida, that was shut down in 2011 and made headlines the following year when the bodies of over 50 boys were exhumed on the school’s grounds. For decades boys and men, who’d survived the brutality at Dozier—beatings, rapes, and torture—had spoken out about the horrors of the institution, hoping someone would listen, but until the exhumation few did.
“Elwood and Turner represent two different parts of my personality,” Whitehead says. “There is the optimistic or hopeful part of me [in Elwood] that believes we can make the world a better place if we keep working at it. Then there’s the pessimistic side, the cynical side [in Turner] that says no—this country is founded on genocide, murder, and slavery and it will always be that way.
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