Creighton University: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Colson Whitehead Speaks During Presidential Lecture Series
March 03, 2022
March 03, 2022
OMAHA, Nebraska, March 3 (TNSOps) -- Creighton University issued the following news:
There is, baked into many of Colson Whitehead's most famous stories, an element of escape.
Escape from slavery. Escape from a brutal reform school in the Jim Crow south. Escape from a zombie apocalypse.
For Whitehead, escape means hope for safe refuge. And that, the author said, "is what keeps you going."
"Whether the stakes are low ... or . . .
There is, baked into many of Colson Whitehead's most famous stories, an element of escape.
Escape from slavery. Escape from a brutal reform school in the Jim Crow south. Escape from a zombie apocalypse.
For Whitehead, escape means hope for safe refuge. And that, the author said, "is what keeps you going."
"Whether the stakes are low ... or . . .