Who wrote Angie Thomas’s young-adult novel The Hate U Give?

Angie Thomas wrote the young-adult novel The Hate U Give.

Published in 2017, the novel follows Starr Carter, a Black teenager who witnesses a police officer shoot her childhood friend Khalil. Starr moves between her predominantly Black neighborhood and her predominantly white private school, giving the story a deliberately divided social perspective.

Thomas drew inspiration from the Black Lives Matter movement and from wider discussions about police violence and racial injustice. The book became a major commercial and critical success, spending weeks at number one on The New York Times young-adult bestseller list.

The title refers to a line associated with Tupac Shakur, whose music and ideas influence the novel. The Hate U Give is sometimes described only as a school story, but its central concerns include identity, community, activism, media representation, and the consequences of witnessing injustice.