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.

And yet, in a month when we are meant to be celebrating the joy, excellence, and resistance of Black Americans, why does it feel like Black ... U Give (2017) by Angie Thomas In recent years ...

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 ...

As we enter 2021, there’s no hotter author anywhere than Angie Thomas. She currently rules the New York Times ... a level of popularity more commonly associated with franchises like the Harry Potter ...

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." ...

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.

Coretta Scott King Honoree and bestselling YA author Angie Thomas makes her middle grade ... an entirely different world that was maybe similar to ours, but had some differences.