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But it can also be a pigeonhole for a writer who’s built his work around everything from zombies to elevators to postage stamps. Merging stark takes on slavery and Jim Crow with a knack for plot twists, Whitehead has become the standard-bearer for racial reckoning in American fiction. His 2016 novel, “ The Underground Railroad,” won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, and 2019’s “The Nickel Boys” won a Pulitzer as well. Colson Whitehead has had an unrivaled recent run as an author. The dig was being funded by the Frost Archaeological Foundation, the very foundation she worked for, and she had been almost giddy with excitement when she submitted her name for consideration for the team being chosen to work on the Ouosalla site. She had never wanted anything as much as she wanted to help excavate the buried ancient village that had only recently been discovered on the African coast of the Red Sea. 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