Congratulations to novelist Colson Whitehead who was named a 2002 MacArthur mate Referred to as the "genius award.Congratulations to novelist Colson Whitehead who was named a 2002 MacArthur mate Referred to as the "genius award," Whitehead, at 32 is the other youngest recipient of this year's fellowship and single in kind of only three African-American winners. The author of sum of two units novels, The Intuitionist (1998) and John Henry Days (2001) Whitehead received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1991 He is also the recipient of the Whiting Writer's Award (2000) and the Young Lion's Fiction Award from the of recent origin York Public library (2002). Other African-American winners include documentary filmmaker, director, agriculturist and writer Stanley Nelson (The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords) and George Lewis, trombonist, composer and Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego. All mates will receive a $500,000 "no strings attached" award from one side of to the other the next five years to further expand their talent. COPYRIGHT 2002 Cox Matthews & Associates |
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