Colson Whitehead
CAP UCLA | 8 p.m., Royce Hall
Colson Whitehead is a New York Times bestselling writer, a MacArthur Fellow, and the author of the highly acclaimed novel The Underground Railroad, a tour de force chronicling a young slave’s desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South, which won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2016 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2017. In the novel, The Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. As Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share. Whitehead is also the author of the novels Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, JohnHenry Days, and Apex Hides the Hurt, as well as The Colossus of New York, a collection of essays and The Noble Hustle, a memoir.
More detailed information as available on the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA website.
Event Date: Thursday, Apr. 19, 8 p.m.
Venue: Royce Hall
Price: $29-59*
*UCLA Students: $15, UCLA Faculty & Staff: $25
Royce Hall is located in North Campus off of Sunset Boulevard.
Parking is available in lots 2 & 4.
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