- President Joe Biden told a novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for back-to-back works that he’s also “looking for back-to-back” wins himself.
- “Colson Whitehead, one of the first and only novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for back-to-back works,” Biden said at the White House on Tuesday. “How in the hell did you do that?
- “Pretty good, man. I’m kind of looking for back-to-back myself.”
- Biden made the comments at the White House while presenting the 2021 National Humanities Medals and National Medals of Arts recipients with their medals.