Colson Whitehead novel a Carnegie medal finalist

Published October 26, 2016

Colson Whitehead's novel, "The Underground Railroad," is up for another literary award, this one presented by the American Library Association.

Whitehead's historical saga about an escaped slave, already a contender for the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize, is one of three finalists for the $5,000 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. The other fiction nominees are Michael Chabon's "Moonglow" and Zadie Smith's "Swing Time."

Finalists for the nonfiction prize, also worth $5,000, are Patricia Bell-Scott's "The Firebrand and the First Lady," Patrick Phillips' "Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America" and Matthew Desmond's "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City."

Winners will be announced Jan. 22 at the association's midwinter meeting in Atlanta.

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