Germantown Academy is pleased to announce that the inaugural guest in the Head of School’s Distinguished Speakers Series will be Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead. Whitehead will discuss his novel “The Underground Railroad,” host a Q&A with audience members and participate in a book-signing on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 7 p.m. in the Arts Center at Germantown Academy, 340 Morris Road, Ft. Washington.

This event is free and open to the public.

In addition to “The Underground Railroad,” an “alternate history” of fugitives and slavecatchers (an Oprah’s Book Club selection and winner of the National Book Award as well as the Pulitzer), Coulson is a MacArthur Fellow and the author of numerous other novels, works of journalism and reviews.