About Angie
Angie Thomas is a bestselling author and a voice for change. Explore her journey as a writer, speaker, and activist.
Angie's Story
Angie Thomas is an inaugural winner of the Walter Dean Myers Grant awarded by We Need Diverse Books. Her award-winning, acclaimed debut young adult novel, The Hate U Give, is a #1 New York Times bestseller and major motion picture from Fox 2000, starring Amandla Stenberg and directed by George Tillman, Jr. Her second novel, On the Come Up, is a #1 New York Times bestseller as well, and Paramount’s film adaptation was directed by Sanaa Lathan, with Angie acting as a producer. In 2020, Angie released Find Your Voice: A Guided Journal to Writing Your Truth to help aspiring writers tell their stories, and in 2021, Angie returned to the top of the New York Times bestseller list with Concrete Rose, a prequel to The Hate U Give.
Angie’s series for middle-grade readers, Nic Blake and the Remarkables, is her first foray into the fantasy genre. The Manifestor Prophecy, The Book of Anansi, and the forthcoming The Threads of Fate follow twelve-year-old Nic Blake, who finds herself immersed in a magical world heavily influenced by Black history and folklore. A film adaptation is forthcoming with Angie writing the script and producing.
I look at books as being a form of activism. Sometimes they’ll show us a side of the world that we might not have known about.
Book Angie to Speak
Angie Thomas’ keynotes resonate with the same authenticity, insight, and hope that make her writing so powerful, and give context and background to the culture and movement that inspired it.