Cultural critic-poet-memoirist Saeed Jones has been announced as Decatur Book Festival’s keynote speaker. Novelist Angie Thomas will give the "kidnote" talk.

Angie Thomas’s newest offering to the young adult literary landscape arrives lyrics-first through the voice of a femme protagonist with a fever for becoming hip-hop royalty. Like Thomas’s ...

As a kid, author Angie Thomas loved books, but as a teenager she hated them. Why? Because there weren't characters like her. "'Twilight' was big when I was a kid — and I have nothing against ...

NPR's Noel King talks to young adult author Angie Thomas about her book: Concrete Rose. It goes back in time to tell the story of the parents of Starr Carter, the teenage girl in The Hate U Give.

By Karen Valby Books get written about kids like Starr Carter, the beloved heroine of Angie Thomas’s best-selling “The Hate U Give.” Too few of these characters have brown skin, but we are ...

Before finding her voice in young adult fiction, author Angie Thomas wanted to rap as a teenager. But she wasn’t good at it, so she decided to study creative writing when she got to college.

JACKSON — Angie Thomas, best-selling author of "The Hate U Give," promised not to cry at a private reception honoring her young-adult-novel-turned-movie, which comes out this week in her home state.

If you blinked you may have missed it, but author Angie Thomas made a cameo in one of The Hate U Give‘s most pivotal scenes: the climactic protest sequence. In a scene that feels literally ...

But “Banned Books: Defending the Right to Read,” which also featured “The Hate U Give” author Angie Thomas, was less focused on defining opponents of access to books than on the writers ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Bestselling author and WNDB spokeswoman Angie Thomas shares 10 of her reading recommendations Angie Thomas was born and raised in ...

In honor of well-known author and alum Angie Thomas, the university will award the Angie Thomas Writers Scholarship to one incoming creative writing major. Now in its fifth year, the scholarship ...

Angie Thomas, author of “The Hate U Give,” will speak at Kansas State University in Manhattan in April. Her new book, “On the Come Up,” will be released Feb. 5. Anissa Hidouk Courtesy ...