Texas Book Festival and BookPeople are proud to host Colson Whitehead as he presents his newest novel, The Nickel Boys. We’re pleased to also partner with the Austin African American Book Festival and Black Studies at the University of Texas at Austin to produce this event.
In this masterful follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
Please join us for an evening with this great American author discussing
his newest work!
See full event guidelines and get your book tickets here
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“I always have these ideas, and I think, ‘That would be really good; if I was a better writer, I could pull it off.’ And then I try to become a better writer to do it justice.”
—Colson Whitehead
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Who: Award-winning author Colson Whitehead
What: Presenting 2019 novel The Nickel Boys
When: 7PM Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Where: First Baptist Church, Austin, TX
