Book Discussion Group Meeting, Saturday, June 2, 2018, 2:00 PM, San Leandro Main Library

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead was born in 1969 and grew up in Manhattan. He graduated from Harvard and worked for the Village Voice. He has published five novels in addition to The Underground Railroad, plus a volume of essays and one work of nonfiction. Whitehead is no stranger to this group. In 2011, we discussed his memoir of the 1980s, Sag Harbor. Here's a link to a post I did at the time of that group discussion. It provides an opportunity to see Whitehead when he was almost 10 years younger.

The more mature Whitehead can be seen in this video of a talk he gave at Google headquarters about The Underground Railroad.

Links to Reviews

Here are a couple of links to thoughtful reviews of The Underground Railroad (and other novels about slavery and the "underground railroad"): From The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker.