Hiram also possesses a superhuman ability called ‘Conduction’. Sadly, however, he does not remember his mother, who was sold away by his father when Hiram was young. Hiram is gifted with a photographic memory. He was an illegitimate son of a Virginia tobacco baron, Howell Walker. Hiram was a product of rape, of his white master and his black mother. Hiram was born as a slave, in the plantations of antebellum Virginia. The Water Dancer is the story of a young boy named Hiram Walker. There was no peace in slavery, for every day under the rule of another is a day of war. In the novel, Coates has beautifully portrayed the struggle between the white and the black people from that era. The author portrays the era before the start of the Civil War in the eighteenth century. The plot of the novel is set in the eighteenth century. The Water Dancer is the National Award-winning author, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ first attempt at writing a fiction novel. He is widely known for his writing about a wide range of cultural and political issues, particularly the issues concerning African Americans.

His works include We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, The Beautiful Struggle, and Between the World and Me. He also wrote briefly for Marvel Comics, including a Black Panther series in addition to a Captain America series. In 2015, the author was awarded the National Book Award for Nonfiction for his book Between the World and Me.

He works as the national correspondent at the Atlantic. Ta-Nehisi Coates is an American journalist and author.

Author of the water dancer