Author Colson Whitehead to speak at Library's Page to Podium event

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JACKSON, Wyo. — The Teton County Library Foundation and Friends has announced a major guest for the 20th anniversary of the annual Page to the Podium event: Colson Whitehead.

Whitehead has twice been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, first for his 2016 novel “The Underground Railroad,” and then for his 2019 novel “The Nickel Boys.” Among his other accolades are the 2021 National Humanities Medal, the 2020 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

He will appear in Jackson for the event on M