Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates (born September 30, 1975) is an American writer, journalist and graphic novelist.

Coates was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He went to Howard University in Washington, D. C.. After college he wrote for many different publications, including the Village Voice, Time, and Entertainment Weekly. He was a regular writer for The Atlantic from 2008 until 2018.

In 2014, Coates wrote an essay that was read and talked about by many people, “The Case for Reparations.” In it he gave reasons for why African Americans should be paid back in some way for their economic difficulties caused by slavery in the United States. 

In 2015, Coates' non-fiction book Between The World And Me won the National Book Award. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2019.

He wrote the 25 issues of the graphic novel Black Panther (2016-2018).

Books
Asphalt Sketches (1990)
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood (2008)
Between the World and Me: Notes on the First 150 Years in America (2015)
Black Panther (2016-2018) 
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (2017)
The Water Dancer (2019)

Reference

Category:1975 births
Category:Living people
Category:American essayists
Category:African-American writers

Category:American comics writers