By Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media “The Nickel Boys” author Colson Whitehead won his second Pulitzer Prize for fiction on Monday, while playwright Michael R.
Jackson’s meta-musical about a black queer man writing a musical about a black queer man doing precisely the same thing captured the award for drama.
Whitehead previously won the prize in 2017 for “The Underground Railroad.” “The Nickel Boys” centers on two teenagers who are brutalized in an abusive juvenile reformatory school.
The New York Times led the pack with three honors. These awards included a commentary prize for Nikole Hannah-Jones’s essay that appeared as part of The 1619 Project, an ambitious look at the legacy of slavery in the United States.
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