When bestselling YA author Angie Thomas was growing up ... at Belhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi, Thomas realized that YA books like juggernauts “Twilight” and “Hunger Games ...

And like Black YA literature ... All the Says to Come." Angie Thomas: The author and activist's debut novel, 2017's "The Hate U Give," began as her senior project at Belhaven University.

Before finding her voice in young adult fiction, author Angie Thomas wanted to rap as a teenager ... there weren’t a lot of people who look like her in the world of young adult literature.

Authors John Green, Jodi Picoult, and Angie Thomas have three things in ... including best-sellers like Thomas's "The Hate U Give," Picoult's "19 Minutes," and Green's "Looking for Alaska." ...

The book has sold out of multiple bookstores, and author Angie Thomas' Twitter feed has been ... I felt it was the best audience for a story like this. So many young people are affected by cases ...

Bestselling author Angie Thomas on Thursday surprised a senior ... and I know that the creative writing program was created with a student like her in mind.” The scholarship was named ...

Because, like it or not, these are things that ... but she asked Jeeves for Left Eye's phone number. - Angie Thomas When the author was about 13 or 14 years old, she was bullied relentlessly ...

Author Angie Thomas will visit Syracuse in April as the fifth author in the Friends of the Central Library (FOCL) 2024-2025 Author Series. Thomas will speak on Tuesday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m. at the ...

But “Banned Books: Defending the Right to Read,” which also featured “The Hate U Give” author Angie Thomas ... Innovators’ Award.) Thomas added that books like hers are seen as dangerous ...