SINGAPORE - As a teenager, Angie Thomas wanted to be a rapper. She did not make it very far.
But rapping laid the foundation for the career of this American author, whose bestselling debut novel The Hate U Give (2017) placed her at the forefront of issue-led young adult fiction.
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