Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Alternate names: TA-NEHISI COATES; Ta-Nehisi COATES; Ta-neh Coates; The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates; We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Born: 1975
Bio: Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for The Atlantic. His book Between The World And Me won the National Book Award in 2015. Ta-Nehisi is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. Since 2016, Coates has written Marvel’s The Black Panther comic book. He lives in New York with his wife and son.

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