Colson Whitehead is the author of the novels Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award; John Henry Days, which won the Young Lions Fiction Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and Apex Hides the Hurt, winner of the PEN Oakland Award. He has also written a book of essays about his hometown, The Colossus of New York. A recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur Fellowship, he lives in New York City.

Ray Carney Series:

1. Harlem Shuffle (2021)
2. Crook Manifesto (2023)

Novels:

1.   The Intuitionist (1998)
2.   John Henry Days (2001)
3.   Apex Hides the Hurt (2006)
4.   Sag Harbor (2009)
5.   Zone One (2011)
6.   The Underground Railroad (2016)
7.   The Nickel Boys (2019)

Collections:

  The Colossus of New York (2003)

Non-fiction:

  The Noble Hustle (2014)