Baltimore Author Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Talks About What Inspired His Novel ‘The Water Dancer’

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — It’s the latest novel on Oprah’s book club list. Now a Baltimore author opens up about what inspired his new book.
It took Ta-Nehisi Coates 10 years to imagine the world of enslaved people in his novel “The Water Dancer.”
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