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Colson Whitehead is the award-winning author of several novels, including The Intuitionist and John Henry Days, as well as a collection of essays about New York City. His fiction, criticism, and reviews have appeared in several publications, such as The New York Times, Harper's, and Granta.

Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer. This marvellously inventive, genre-bending, noir-inflected novel, set in the curious world of elevator inspection, portrays a universe parallel to our own, where matters of morality, politics, and race reveal unexpected ironies.

GQ

A very fine first novel....a parable, and a parody, of racial identity in a world that can't help but break down into two kinds of people.