Tananarive Due
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Tananarive Priscilla Due (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell) (born January 5, 1966) is an American author and educator. Due won the American Book Award for her novel The Living Blood (2001), and the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel, and the World Fantasy Award for her novel The Reformatory (2023).[1][2] She is also known as a film historian with expertise in Black horror. Due teaches a course at UCLA called "The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival and the Black Horror Aesthetic", which focuses on the Jordan Peele film Get Out.[3]
Early life and education
Due was born in Tallahassee, Florida, the oldest of three daughters of civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due and civil rights lawyer John D. Due Jr.[4] Her mother named her after the French name for Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar.[5]
Due earned a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and an M.A. in English literature, with an emphasis on Nigerian literature, from the University of Leeds.[4] At Northwestern, she lived in the Communications Residential College.[6]
Career
Due was working as a journalist and columnist for the Miami Herald when she wrote her first novel, The Between, in 1995.[6] This, like many of her subsequent books, was part of the supernatural genre.[7] Due also wrote The Black Rose, a historical novel about Madam C. J. Walker (based in part on research conducted by Alex Haley before his death) and Freedom in the Family, a nonfiction work about the civil rights struggle. She contributed to the humor novel Naked Came the Manatee, a mystery/thriller parody to which various Miami-area authors each contributed chapters. Due also authored the African Immortals novel series and the Tennyson Hardwick novels.
Due is a member of the affiliate faculty in the creative writing MFA program at Antioch University Los Angeles[8] and is also an endowed Cosby chair in the humanities at Spelman College in Atlanta.[9]
She developed a course at UCLA called "The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival and the Black Horror Aesthetic" after the release of the 2017 film Get Out.[3] The first course went viral and included a visit from Jordan Peele.[3]
Due was featured in the 2019 documentary film Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, produced by Shudder.[3]
Her novel The Reformatory was published by Saga Press in 2023.[10][11]
Personal life
Due is married to author Steven Barnes, whom she met in 1997 at a Clark Atlanta University panel on "The African-American Fantastic Imagination: Explorations in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror".[12] The couple lives in the Los Angeles, California area with their son, Jason.[13]
Bibliography
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Novels
Speculative fiction
- The Between (1995)
- The Good House (2003)
- Joplin's Ghost (2005)
- Ghost Summer: Stories (2015)
- The Reformatory (2023)
African Immortals series
- My Soul to Keep (1997)
- The Living Blood (2001)
- Blood Colony (2008)
- My Soul to Take (2011)
Mysteries
- Naked Came the Manatee (1996) (contributor)
The Tennyson Hardwick novels
- Casanegra (2007; with Blair Underwood and Steven Barnes)
- In the Night of the Heat (2008; with Blair Underwood and Steven Barnes)
- From Cape Town with Love (2010; with Blair Underwood and Steven Barnes)
- South by Southeast (2012; with Blair Underwood and Steven Barnes)
Short stories
- "Like Daughter", Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (2000)
- "Trial Day", Mojo: Conjure Stories (2003)
- "Aftermoon", Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (2004)
- "Senora Suerte", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction[14] (2006)
- "The Lake" (2011)
- "Enhancement", Whose Future is It? (2018)[15]
- "The Wishing Pool" (2021)[16]
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Other works
- The Black Rose, historical fiction about Madam C. J. Walker[17] (2000)
- Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights (2003) (with Patricia Stephens Due)
- Devil's Wake (with Steven Barnes) (2012)
- Domino Falls (2013)
- Ghost Summer (Collection) (2015)
- The Keeper (with Steven Barnes) (2022)
- The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (Collection) (2023)[18]
Awards and recognition
- Nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel for The Between
- Nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel for My Soul to Keep[12]
- Nominated for an NAACP Image Award for The Black Rose
- Received the NAACP Image Award for In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel (with Blair Underwood and Steven Barnes)[19]
- The American Book Award for The Living Blood
- 2008 Carl Brandon Kindred Award for the novella "Ghost Summer", which appeared in the anthology The Ancestors (2008)[20]
- Winner of the 2016 British Fantasy Award for the short story collection Ghost Summer.
- Winner of the 2020 Ignyte Award for Best in Creative Nonfiction for Black Horror Rising, published in Uncanny Magazine (2019)[21]
- Winner of the 2022 Ember Award "for unsung contributions to genre"[22]
- Winner of the 2023 World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction for "Incident at Bear Creek Lodge," published in Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology[23]
- Winner of the 2023 Shirley Jackson Award for best novel for The Reformatory.[24]
- Winner of the 2023 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel for The Reformatory.[25]
- Winner of the 2024 Chautauqua Prize for The Reformatory.[26]
- Winner of the 2024 World Fantasy Award for The Reformatory.[27]
- Winner of the 2024 L.A. Times Book Prize for science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction for The Reformatory.[28]
See also
References
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- ↑ "Books in Brief: Fiction; Making It Big in Hair" By Charles Wilson, The New York Times, August 27, 2000.
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External links
- Official website
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- Book review, The Reformatory by Tananarive Due, November 11, 2023 on NPR
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