Colson Whitehead: The only writer to win fiction Pulitzers for consecutive works speaks with 60 Minutes

The club of writers who have won the Pulitzer Prize twice for fiction is small. Colson Whitehead: You know that's what made me a writer, not being a journalist or being 12 and thinking, "I wanna write Stephen King-type horror novels." John Dickerson: And did any of them change the title in a way that's-- you know, sometimes when it's in a foreign language, it's something like the "Railroad That Is Not Above the Ground." Colson Whitehead: I had the idea in the year 2000, I was like, this is a great idea, it's cool, the railroad is gonna be real and I'm like each state is gonna be like "Gulliver's Travel," a different alternative America. That's my job… is to write from…" Colson Whitehead: Or "I'm a human being."