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Where is your favorite place to write? How much time did you spend in that place writing The Underground Railroad?

Colson Whitehead Home in my office. Work, take a nap, weep, make a sandwich, work. I wrote 1/3 of the book in Florence, when I was teaching in NYU's creative writing program there, and the other 2/3 in NYC.

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There's obviously a fantastical element to your book as the railroad is real, but how much research did you do into the actual Underground Railroad to inform your writing?

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