This goo was worth a point in July 2024.

publication date: Saturday, July 20, 2024 (part of July 2024)

category: Literature

clue: He was paid more than a nickel for his underground hits: Two Pulitzer Prizes, in fact.

explanation: Whitehead earned the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice, for The Underground Railroad in 2017 and The NIckel Boys in 2020. more…

intended difficulty: medium

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, and Richard Slominsky


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