Primary Works:
Fiction: The Intuitionist, 1999;
John Henry Days,
2001;
Apex Hides the Hurt, 2006;
Sag Harbor, 2009;
Zone
One, 2011;
The Underground Railroad, 2016;
The Nickel
Boys, 2019.
Non-fiction: The Colossus of New York, 2003;
The
Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky & Death, 2014.
Selected Bibliography:
Bishop, Kyle W.
How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture: The
Multifarious Walking Dead in the 21st Century. Jefferson, NC:
McFarland, 2015.
Cooper, Preston P.
Playing with Expectations: Postmodern Narrative
Choices and the African American Novel. New York, NY: Peter Lang,
2015.
Elam, Michele.
The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and
Aesthetics in the New Millennium. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2011.
Grassian, Daniel.
Writing the Future of Black America: Literature
of the Hip-Hop Generation. Columbia, SC: U of South Carolina P,
2009.
Hayles, N. Katherine.
Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive
Nonconscious. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Hicks, Heather J.
The Post-Apocalyptic Novel in the Twenty-First
Century: Modernity Beyond Salvage. New York, NY: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2016.
Grattan, Sean Austin.
Hope Isn't Stupid: Utopian Affects in
Contemporary American Literature. Iowa City, IA: U of Iowa P, 2017.
Li, Stephanie.
Signifying without Specifying: Racial Discourse in
the Age of Obama. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2011.
Maus, Derek C.
Understanding Colson Whitehead. Columbia, SC: U
of South Carolina P, 2014.
Miller, Stephen.
Walking New York: Reflections of American Writers
from Walt Whitman to Teju Cole. New York, NY: Fordham UP, 2014.
Norman, Brian.
Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post-Civil
Rights American Literature. Athens, GA: U of Georgia P, 2010.