Welcome to book tvindepth program, this is our special year of fiction on indepth. You see authors such as david baldacci, jody people, Walter Mosley, last month we had david ignatius, Washington Post columnist and thriller writer who writes about the cia and such. This month we are pleased to have Pulitzer Prize winning author Colson Whitehead as our guest with the most recent book is the underground railroad. Mister whitehead, whats the appropriate response when your book are are praised by oprah, president obama, you win the pulitzer and National Book award, whats the appropriate response . It took the pain away. This book is taking off in a way that is startling and wonderful so mostly i just thank my lucky stars and i sleep a little better, im in a better mood generally. And i tried to enjoy it. Its my best effort. Why does that put you in a better mood . Ive been writing for 20 something years, doing fiction for 20 years and you know, sometimes you write a book and people digging
And you can watch full programs on our website, booktv. Org. Welcome back everybody. Lets get started. Imdealer kites, your room host of the day. Were a little weary by this time but im glad to be here. Im also chair of the brick 11 literary society. Turn your cell phones off, thank you all for coming. Lets thank our sponsors, we need to do that in every session because they are so important to the success of the fair so thanks to knight foundation, poway gel, or a gain of construction, bachelor foundation, the degroot foundation. As always, thank you to all the friends of the book fair. We hope everybody who is in this room will be a friend by next year so you can enjoy all the activities that are available for friends during here. We thank our volunteers, we thank the staff of the book fair and super big thanks to miamidade college. Thanks to all. [applause] we have a big crowd for a mighty important author to let me start by introducing his introducer. Marcia dunn is a longtime miam