In 2021, Angie returned to the world of Garden Heights with CONCRETE ROSE, a prequel to THE HATE U GIVE focused on seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter that debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give: 'Books play a huge part in resistance' Author Angie Thomas photographed at her home near Ridgeland in Jackson, Mississippi. In 2020, Angie released FIND YOUR VOICE: A Guided Journal to Writing Your Truth as a tool to help aspiring writers tell their stories.

THE HATE U GIVE was adapted into a critically acclaimed film from Fox 2000, starring Amandla Stenberg and directed by George Tillman, Jr.Īngie’s second novel, ON THE COME UP, is a #1 New York Times bestseller as well, and a film is in development with Paramount Pictures with Angie acting as a producer. Morris Debut Award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (USA), the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize (UK), and the Deutscher Jugendliterapreis (Germany). It was later acquired by the Balzer+Bray imprint of HarperCollins Publishers in a 13-publisher auction and debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, winning the ALA’s William C. Her debut novel, THE HATE U GIVE, started as a senior project in college. The Hate U Give was written, as Thomas says, to bring light to the controversial issue of police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement. She can also still rap if needed.Īngie is an inaugural winner of the Walter Dean Myers Grant 2015, awarded by We Need Diverse Books. She holds a BFA in Creative Writing from Belhaven University and an unofficial degree in Hip Hop. And, Amandla Stenberg’s moving performance as Starr Carter makes even clearer just how scary hate and self-hate can be to fight. She is a former teen rapper whose greatest accomplishment was an article about her in Right-On Magazine. That’s one of the things George Tillman, Jr.’s The Hate U Give makes very clear. Angie Thomas was born and raised in Mississippi, but now calls Atlanta her home.

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