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Ta-Nehisi Coates
History & Commentary
Ta-Nehisi Coates is an American author and journalist whose nonfiction examines African American life, white supremacy, and cultural, social, and political issues.
Biography
Ta-Nehisi Coates is an American author, journalist, and activist born in 1975. He gained a wide readership as a national correspondent at The Atlantic, writing about cultural, social, and political issues, particularly those concerning African Americans and white supremacy. His work has appeared in numerous periodicals.
His four nonfiction books are The Beautiful Struggle, Between the World and Me, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, and The Message. Between the World and Me won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction, and Coates received a MacArthur Fellowship that year. He has also written Black Panther and Captain America series for Marvel Comics. His first novel, The Water Dancer, appeared in 2019.
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Books by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me is a 2015 nonfiction book written as a letter to Coates's teenage son about being Black in the United States. Drawing on American history and his youth in Baltimore, Coates examines racist violence, white supremacy, and the institutions that endanger Black lives.