It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood is Trevor Noah’s 2019 young reader’s adaptation of his 2016 memoir Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood. Noah is a comedian, writer, producer, and political commentator. While he rose to fame in South Africa in the 2000s, he became more well-known in the United States in 2015 after he took over Jon Stewart’s hosting duties on the popular late-night comedy news show The Daily Show. Noah has filmed many stand-up specials and hosted the Grammy Awards several times, as well as the 2022 White House Correspondent’s Dinner. Noah was born in 1984 in Johannesburg, South Africa, to a Black Xhosa mother, Patricia, and a white Swiss German father, Robert. He was born roughly 10 years before the end of apartheid, the violent system of institutional racism, racial segregation, and disenfranchisement in South Africa under the minority white Afrikaner government. The memoir’s title phrase “born a crime” refers to the fact that sexual or romantic relationships between people of different races were criminalized under apartheid.