“When you allow someone to adapt it, you’re not forced to.

How do you feel about your books becoming movies or plays?

And that went on forever, but it’s really good.” So, three really huge books about alien invasion. They call it the Chinese Game of Thrones. One thing that did end was this trilogy called The Three-Body Problem. The last novel that you loved and wished wouldn’t end? I got an idea from a dream once: Zone One, my zombie book. Sometimes I’m reading a newspaper article and I think, ‘Oh, that’s interesting.’ Underground Railroad -I was just thinking of when I was a kid and had images of the train and that became a book. Nearly three decades later, the dynamic and popular author is preparing to release his seventh novel, The Nickel Boys, which will explore the dark history of a segregated reform school in Florida through the eyes of two teenagers there.ĭuring his Drew Forum talk, which was supported by the Merrill Maguire Skaggs Lecture endowed fund, Whitehead also read a passage from The Underground Railroad and answered questions from the audience. Besides, he thought more profoundly, “Maybe it’s out of my hands.

Still, other options he joked about at Drew-pianist? hand model? surgeon?-certainly didn’t suit him like writing. Rejection sparked self-doubt, which triggered questions about his career choice. Whitehead, whose 2016 novel The Underground Railroad earned the Pulitzer for Fiction, pointedly recalled how in his early 20s he amassed rejection letters from big name and esoteric publishers when he tried to sell his first novel. October 2018 – Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead mixed deadpan humor and anecdotes about his early days as a writer during an animated talk at Drew University.

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