Stockton to host National Book Award winner

Ta-Nehisi-Coates

GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP – Author Ta-Nehisi Coates will be the featured speaker at the 2021 Pappas Visiting Scholar Series at Stockton University. The talk will be held via Zoom 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 16, with Professor of Africana Studies and Communication Studies Donnetrice Allison.

Ta-Nehisi Coates is an author, journalist, screenwriter, executive producer and professor. He is the author of the bestselling books “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.

In April 2018, “Between the World and Me,” which the New York Times named one of the best books of the year, was adapted for the stage and premiered at the iconic Apollo Theater. Rolling Stone magazine said its 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.”

His novel “The Water Dancer” will be turned into a film adaptation – with Ta-Nehisi writing the screenplay – and will be produced by Plan B Entertainment, Harpo Productions and MGM Studios. He is the current author of the Marvel comic “Captain America” and in 2015 was a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.

“Between the World and Me” has also been chosen by Stockton’s faculty as the shared reading for incoming students as part of their first-year seminar course.

The Pappas Lecture Series was created by former Stockton University Board of Trustee Dean C. Pappas and his wife Zoe, who donated $1 million to establish the Dean C. and Zoë S. Pappas Visiting Scholar Endowment Fund.

For more information or to register for this event please visit stockton.edu/pappas.