
About 
    
	Ta-Nehisi Coates  is the author of  The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Water Dancer,  and  Between the World and Me,  which won the  National Book Award  in 2015. He is the recipient of a  National Magazine Award  and a  MacArthur Fellowship.  He is currently the Sterling Brown endowed chair at Howard University in the English department.

