Colson Whitehead's 'The Nickel Boys' wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction

Colson Whitehead became the rare author to receive Pulitzers for consecutive books when his novel about a brutal Florida reform school during the Jim Crow era, The Nickel Boys, was awarded the fiction prize Monday. Photo: AP

Colson Whitehead became the rare author to receive Pulitzers for consecutive books when his novel about a brutal Florida reform school during the Jim Crow era, The Nickel Boys, was awarded the fiction prize Monday.

Three years ago, he won for his Civil War era novel The Underground Railroad.