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About Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates ( TAH-nə-HAH-see; born September 30, 1975) is an American author, journalist, and activist. He gained a wide readership during his time as national correspondent at The Atlantic, where he wrote about cultural, social, and political issues, particularly regarding African Americans and white supremacy. He is politically progressive.

Coates's work has been published in numerous periodicals. He has published four nonfiction books: The Beautiful Struggle (2008), Between the World and Me (2015), We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (2017), and The Message (2024). Between the World and Me won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction. He has also written a Black Panther series and a Captain America series for Marvel Comics. His first novel, The Water Dancer, was published in 2019. In 2015, Coates received a MacArthur Fellowship.

Ta-Nehisi Coates writes about Comics & graphic novels, science fiction, Literature, Social conditions, United States, New York Times bestseller, and Kings and rulers. Their best-known work is Between the World and Me.

On FindMyTBR we track 9 books by Ta-Nehisi Coates, 8 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Between the World and Me, Der Wassertänzer, and La Danse de l'eau. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.