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For The 'Nickel Boys,' Life Isn't Worth 5 CentsColson Whitehead's harrowing new novel is based on a true story about a brutally abusive reform school in Florida where the grounds were pocked with the unmarked graves of the boys who died there.

In ‘The Nickel Boys,’ Colson Whitehead Depicts a Real-Life House of HorrorsThe reform school at the center of Whitehead’s new novel (his first since “The Underground Railroad”) is more like a prison where the inmates are brutalized and even killed.

Novelist Colson Whitehead Reminds Us How America's Racist History Lives OnHe is the rare author whose books have both critical acclaim and robust sales

Extended interview: Colson Whitehead on writing "The Nickel Boys"The Pulitzer Prize-winner also discusses "The Underground Railroad," the emotional drain of research, and searching for different ways to attack the world through literature

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