Colson Whitehead's multilayered second novel, John Henry Days, was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. In reviewing the novel for the New York Times, Jonathan Franzen wrote: "Again and again, you hit passages of wry and largehearted descriptive prose that are the clearest measure of Whitehead's achievement and promise as a writer." In his quirky and imaginative books, including his PEN/Faulkner finalist Sag Harbor, he explores history and legend, reinvention and growth, and racial and class identity. Whitehead's newest novel, Zone One is a post-apocalyptic zombie venture that unravels in Manhattan. He will introduce a screening of Night of the Living Dead at 6:00 p.m.