The acclaimed author’s “knowledge and love of Marvel mythology is deep,” Marvel’s editor-in-chief told BuzzFeed News.
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"How often do you find a literary voice as singular and confident and powerful as Ta-Nehisi?" Marvel's Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso told BuzzFeed News. "How often does that same voice happen to be a hardcore fan of Marvel comics and mythology? That's rare. That doesn't happen."
Coates catapulted himself to the top of the national literary scene in July when he released his memoir, Between the World and Me, hailed as "beautifully redemptive" and "profoundly moving."
The book, written in the form of a letter to his teenage son about life in America as a black person, was nominated for the National Book Awards' non-fiction prize and made Coates one of the most prominent black writers in America.
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