Wikipedia Commons/David Shankbone | 15,779 (16,581) | 653 | 1,423 | (4.14) | 9 | | Ta-Nehisi Coates was born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 30, 1975. He attended Howard University. He is a correspondent at The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle and Between the World and Me, which won a National Book Award for nonfiction in 2015 and the 2016 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. He was included on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Between the World and Me… (more) |
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