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Portrait image of Colson Whitehead Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2017)

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Whitehead, Colson

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...

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Portrait image of H.R.F. Keating Photo: Sophie Bassouls/Sygma/Corbis via Getty Images (1991)

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Keating, H.R.F.

Henry Raymond Fitzwalter "Harry" Keating is a British author born at St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex. He was educated in the Merchant Taylor’s school in London between 1940 and 1944 and served in the military until 1948 when he entered Trinity College, Dublin, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1952. Keating then worked at various newspapers, mainly in London. He started to work for The Times in 1...

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