The founder of the creative writing program that inspired author Angie Thomas to write “The Hate U Give,” a young adult novel that has swept The New York Times’ best-seller list, remembers ...

Is "On the Come Up" Based on a True Story? According to Thomas, she was "inspired to write 'On the Come Up' for several reasons" — one of them being that her life mirrors its main character.

Bestselling book ‘The Hate U Give’ tackles police violence against black teenagers The young adult novel "The Hate U Give" tells the story of a teenager whose childhood friend is shot and ...

Anissa Hidouk In Angie Thomas’ new novel ... explains why she likes to write for teens rather than adults, and how the Black Lives Matter movement and Tupac inspired her novel.

Angie Thomas certainly thinks so ... AB: What inspired you when it came to writing OTCU? AT: I was inspired by a lot of things. I was inspired by hip hop and how it empowers so many young people ...

Few first novelists have the kind of success Angie Thomas saw with ... Perhaps even fewer write a second novel that gets as many advance raves as Thomas’s “On the Come Up,” which will ...

Before finding her voice in young adult fiction, author Angie Thomas wanted to rap as a teenager. But she wasn’t good at it, so she decided to study creative writing when she got to college.

Angie Thomas is the author of The Hate U Give ... The autobiographical title poem, which inspired my novel's title, movingly describes the beauty and resilience that can be found in so many ...

Novelist Angie Thomas has built a huge readership with her ... A: “Parents, get comfortable with being uncomfortable.” I have parents who write to me and say, “I loved ‘The Hate U Give ...

CANTON, Miss. — Bestselling author Angie Thomas on Thursday surprised a senior at a Mississippi high school with a full-ride scholarship for creative writing to the private university where ...

Four years after publishing The Hate U Give, a Black Lives Matter-inspired novel that has spent 200 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, Angie Thomas ... and how writing saved her sanity ...