Niehoff XXXVI: Colson Whitehead

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Sat, 25 Oct, 2025 at 06:00 pm

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Hyatt Downtown Cincinnati Ohio | Cincinnati, OH

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You’re invited to join us at the Library’s only annual fundraiser: The Niehoff Lecture, featuring Colson Whitehead.
Colson Whitehead is the number one New York Times bestselling author of nine books of fiction and non-fiction, including The Underground Railroad, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award and was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. He is also a recipient of the MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships. In 2020, he won his second Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Nickel Boys.
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