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Angie Thomas
Angie Thomas is an American author of young adult and middle-grade fiction. She was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and studied creative writing at Belhaven University, where she earned a BFA. As a teenager she was a rapper who was featured in Right On! magazine. Her debut novel, The Hate U Give (2017), was acquired by Balzer + Bray in a 13-house auction and debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. She followed it with On the Come Up (2019) and Concrete Rose (2021), and has co-...