Ta-Nehisi Coates, author portrait
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Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Water Dancer, and Between the World and Me, which won the National Book Award in 2015. He is the recipient of a National Magazine Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is currently the Sterling Brown endowed chair at Howard University in the English department.
Between the World and Me
The Message
The Beautiful Struggle (Adapted for Young Adults)
The Water Dancer
We Were Eight Years in Power
The Beautiful Struggle

Books

Between the World and Me
The Message
The Beautiful Struggle (Adapted for Young Adults)
The Water Dancer
We Were Eight Years in Power
The Beautiful Struggle

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