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The club of writers who have won the Pulitzer Prize twice for fiction is small. It contains just four members. The club of those awarded the prize for consecutive novels is even smaller. Colson Whitehead is its only member.

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He won last year for his novel, "The Nickel Boys," about the Jim Crow south. In 2017, he won for "The Underground Railroad." Through historical fiction, he has illuminated the past to tell us something about our present. But his work does not stay in one place.

He has written about elevator inspectors, zombie hunters and the World Series of Poker. His next book is a heist novel.

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One of the other four members of the double-Pulitzer club, John Updike, said of Whitehead's style: "His writing does what writing should do. It refreshes our sense of the world."

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"Even in death the boys were in trouble." "The first time Caesar approached Cora about running north, she said, 'No.'" "It's a new elevator, freshly presse