In Print announces 2019-2020 season with Ta-Nehisi Coates, Colson Whitehead

Ta-Nehisi Coates, the Atlantic correspondent and author of "Between the World and Me," in Baltimore, July 16, 2015. Coates' meditation on the black experience in America is already being hailed as a runaway success. "I wanted to make racism tactile, visceral," said Coates. "Because it is." (Gabriella Demczuk/The New York Times) less Ta-Nehisi Coates, the Atlantic correspondent and author of "Between the World and Me," in Baltimore, July 16, 2015. Coates' meditation on the black experience in America is already being hailed as a runaway ... more Photo: GABRIELLA DEMCZUK, STR Photo: GABRIELLA DEMCZUK, STR Image 1 of / 5 Caption Close In Print announces 2019-2020 season with Ta-Nehisi Coates, Colson Whitehead 1 / 5 Back to Gallery

In Print Houston announced the lineup for its Margaret Root Brown Reading Series for 2019-2020 on Monday night. Authors visiting Houston to read from their latest works include Ta-Nehisi Coates, Colson Whitehead, Louise Erdrich and Colum McCann.

Whitehead will kick off the series' season on Sept. 16. He'll stop in Houston on his tour for "The Nickel Boys," his ninth novel, which is being described as a companion piece to "The Underground Railroad," his 2016 novel that won a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Whitehead began work on "The Nickel Boys" after reading about the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, an institution in Florida with a dark and dubious history. Whitehead used the reform school as inspiration for his Nickel Academy in a tale about Jim Crow-era Florida.

Coates won the National Book Award for "Between the World and Me," a letter in book form written to his son about growing up black in America. The recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant," Coates has largely worked in non-fiction prior to the forthcoming publication of "The Water Dancer," his first novel, due in late-September. He'll read here Oct. 29.

Also appearing this season:

Elizabeth Gilbert, who just published her novel "City of Girls." She sold m0re than a few copies of her spiritual travel memoir, "Eat Pray Love." She comes to Houston Nov. 11.

Carmen Maria Machado comes to Houston Jan. 27, 2020, with her new memoir "In the Dream House." Her collection of short stories, "Her Body and Other Parties," was a National Book Award finalist two years ago.

Louise Erdrich has published novels, short stories, poetry, children's books and essays in a distinguished career that spans 40 years. She reads here March 9.

In Print brings poets Reginald Dwayne Betts and Natalie Diaz on March 23. Canadian novelist Emily St. John Mandel is here April 27 with Irish novelist Colum McCann to close the 2019-2020 season.

Season tickets will go on sale in the next few weeks, according to In Print executive director Rich Levy. More information can be found on the organization's site.