Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me, will be the second Beyond Buzzwords speaker on Tuesday, June 4.
Between the World and Me won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction, and was also named a Pulitzer Prize finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, #1 New York Times Bestseller, and one of Time’s ten best nonfiction books of the decade.
“Hailed by Toni Morrison as ‘required reading,’ (Between the World and Me is) a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race,” Rolling Stone’s review read.
Coates’ mother was a teacher, and his father was a librarian and publisher. While he never graduated college, Coates has won countless national writing awards and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2019. He is also a journalist who has written extensively for The Atlantic, as well as Time, Entertainment Weekly, and O, the Oprah Magazine, among other publications.
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