Colson Whitehead
novelist
Double Pulitzer Prize winner whose novels blend historical gravity with inventive, muscular prose and wide-ranging vocabulary.
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adj. consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story n. a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events
The narrative arc must be tight. (Attributed to Colson Whitehead)
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n. writing or speech in its usual form of a series of sentences. Novels short stories essays and letters are examples of writing done in prose.
His prose is muscular and lean. (Attributed to Colson Whitehead)
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n. the practice of expressing things as in art or literature by means of symbols
The symbolism is hidden in the details. (Attributed to Colson Whitehead)
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n. 1 a short moral story; 2 a visible symbol representing an abstract idea
A dark allegory for our times. (Attributed to Colson Whitehead)
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