Photo: Courtesy Denver Public Library and MCA Denver
ArtsMeet Author Colson Whitehead: The One Book One Denver Author Talk
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- When
- Fri, Sep 25, 2026
- Where
- MCA Denver at the Holiday Theater, Denver
Colson Whitehead is one of only a handful of novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice, for 'The Underground Railroad' in 2017 and 'The Nickel Boys' in 2020, and writers at that level rarely take a single-night Denver booking. MCA Denver lists this talk as the culminating event of Denver Public Library's 2026 One Book One Denver season, the citywide program that asks the whole city to read the same book.
The talk is at MCA Denver's Holiday Theater, the museum's second venue at 2644 W. 32nd Ave. in Highland. It is a small room by author-tour standards, which is the draw here and also the reason tickets to library-backed author nights in Denver tend to move quickly.
MCA Denver's events page confirms the Sept. 25, 2026 date but does not publish a start time or a ticket price for this event, so check the individual event page before planning around it. Street parking in Highland around 32nd and Zuni is the realistic option and fills on weekend evenings.
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