Angie Thomas

Best-Selling Young-Adult Novelist Known for "The Hate U Give"

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Angie Thomas Biography

Angie Thomas was born and raised in Mississippi, but now calls Atlanta her home. She is a former teen rapper whose greatest accomplishment was an article about her in Right-On Magazine. She holds a BFA in Creative Writing from Belhaven University and an unofficial degree in Hip Hop. She can also still rap if needed.

Thomas is an inaugural winner of the Walter Dean Myers Grant 2015, awarded by We Need Diverse Books. Her debut novel, "The Hate U Give," started as a senior project in college. 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. Morris Debut Award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (USA), the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize (UK), and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis(Germany)."The Hate U Give" was adapted into a critically acclaimed film from Fox 2000, starring Amandla Stenberg and directed by George Tillman, Jr.

Thomas’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 Thomas acting as a producer. In 2020, Thomas released "Find Your Voice: A Guided Journal to Writing Your Truth" as a tool to help aspiring writers tell their stories. In 2021, Thomas 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 Videos

  • Angie Thomas - Telling Uncomfortable Stories & “On the Come Up”
    Author Angie Thomas talks about how she got her big break, the kinds of stories she wants to tell and how her connection to hip hop informed the...
  • "The Hate U Give" author Angie Thomas talks new novel "On the Come Up"
    The critically acclaimed movie “The Hate U Give” follows a teenager's journey to find her voice after she witnesses a white police officer shoot...

Angie Thomas Books

  • Concrete Rose
    Concrete Rose
  • On the Come Up Collector’s Edition
    On the Come Up Collector’s Edition
  • The Hate U Give
    The Hate U Give

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