Angie Thomas

Angie Thomas, born September 20, 1988, in Jackson, Mississippi, is an American young adult author best known for her debut novel The Hate U Give, which addresses racism and police brutality and became a #1 New York Times bestseller[2][3]. She has also written On the Come Up, Concrete Rose (a prequel to The Hate U Give), and entered the fantasy genre with Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy, her first middle-grade novel[1][2].