Colson Whitehead is an esteemed novelist and essayist who was born on the 6th of November in 1969. Whitehead was born and raised in the city of Manhattan. He attended Trinity school and the prestigious Ivy League school called Harvard College. He then continued to go on and work for The Village Voice. There he wrote various commentaries on things such as music, books and television. One of his very first novels he wrote was called, The Intuitionist. The Intuitionist is about an African American elevator inspector and the trail and tribulations she encounters because of the color of her skin. This fiction piece won the Quality Paperback Book Club’s New Voices award and ended up being a runner-up for the Hemmingway. Colon’s next novel was called,