Colson Whitehead

CA.Nottage/Face.RDL (kodak ) Playwright Lynn Nottage is photographed outside South Coast Repertory i
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Black Playwright, Poet, Novelist And Critic All Win 2017 Pulitzer Prizes

Colson Whitehead won in fiction; Lynn Nottage in drama and Tyehimba Jess in poetry. Hisham Matar, who is of Libyan descent, won for biography or autobiography.