Whitehead, Colson
- Country/Region:
- USA
- Genres:
- Miscellaneous prose, Crime literature
American writer Art Colson Chipp Whitehead spent his early years at 139th Riverside in Harlem, a tough place by his reckoning. His family later moved to other living quarters in Manhattan. His parents were middle class and well-to-do. Whitehead had three siblings. The children attended private schools, but his father still considered it mandatory to teach him the art of survival in such a racist environment as New York City. Now a father of two kids himself, he has taught them the same.
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