COLSON WHITEHEAD

On Wednesday, join USA TODAY for a Facebook Live chat with author Colson Whitehead

about his novel The Underground Railroad, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. #BookmarkThis is a series of live video chats with best-selling authors, and fans can submit questions.

It’s a great opportunity to touch base with Whitehead, 48, whose novel about an escaped slave girl in the Deep South imagines the famed Underground Railroad as a literal network of tracks and stations. The Underground Railroad will be released in paperback Jan. 30 (Anchor).