Tananarive Due

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Tananarive Due
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Due at the 2023 National Book Festival
Born
Tananarive Priscilla Due

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Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.
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OccupationWriter, educator
NationalityAmerican
EducationMedill School of Journalism (BS, MA)
GenresScience fiction, mystery, horror
Literary movementAfro-Surrealism[1]
SpouseSteven Barnes (husband)
RelativesJason (son)
Nicki (stepdaughter)
Website
www.tananarivedue.com

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Tananarive Priscilla Due (/təˈnænəriːv ˈdjuː/ Script error: No such module "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).[2][3] 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.[4]

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.[5] Her mother named her after the French name for Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar.[6]

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.[5] At Northwestern, she lived in the Communications Residential College.[7]

Career

Due was working as a journalist and columnist for the Miami Herald when she wrote her first novel, The Between, in 1995.[7] This, like many of her subsequent books, was part of the supernatural genre.[8] 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[9] and is also an endowed Cosby chair in the humanities at Spelman College in Atlanta.[10]

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.[4] The first course went viral and included a visit from Jordan Peele.[4]

Due was featured in the 2019 documentary film Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, produced by Shudder.[4]

Her novel The Reformatory was published by Saga Press in 2023.[11][12]

Personal life

Due is the daughter of civil rights activists Patricia Stephens Due and civil rights attorney John D Due Jr. . She has two sisters Johnita and Lydia.

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".[13] The couple lives in the Los Angeles, California area with their son, Jason.[14]

Bibliography

Novels

African Immortals series

The Tennyson Hardwick novels

  • Casanegra (with Blair Underwood and Steven Barnes, 2007)
  • In the Night of the Heat (with Blair Underwood and Steven Barnes, 2008)
  • From Cape Town with Love (with Blair Underwood and Steven Barnes, 2010)
  • South by Southeast (with Blair Underwood and Steven Barnes, 2012)

Graphic novels

  • The Keeper (with Steven Barnes, 2022)
  • Black Panther: Sins of the King (Steven Barnes, Geoffrey Thorne, Mohale Mashigo, and Ira Madison III, 2024)

Other works

  • Naked Came the Manatee (contributor, 1996)
  • Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights (Patricia Stephens Due, 2003)
  • The Ancestors (with L.A. Banks and Brandon Massey, 2008)
  • Devil's Wake (with Steven Barnes, 2012)
  • Domino Falls (with Steven Barnes, 2013)
  • The Keeper (with Steven Barnes, 2022)

Short stories

Awards and recognition

Year Work Award Category Result Ref.
1995 The Between Bram Stoker Award First Novel Nominated [17]
1997 My Soul to Keep Bram Stoker Award Novel Nominated [18]
2001 Script error: No such module "sort". International Horror Guild Award Novel Nominated [19]
2002 American Book Award — Won [20]
2003 Script error: No such module "sort". International Horror Guild Award Novel Nominated [19]
2009 Script error: No such module "sort". Carl Brandon Award Kindred Award Won [21]
In the Night of the Heat NAACP Image Award Fiction Won[a] [22]
2015 Script error: No such module "sort". Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award — Finalist [23]
2016 Ghost Summer: Stories British Fantasy Award Collection Won [24]
NAACP Image Award Fiction Nominated [25]
2020 Template:Screen reader-only Ignyte Award Ember Award Finalist [26]
Script error: No such module "sort". Ignyte Award Creative Nonfiction Won [26]
2021 Template:Screen reader-only Ignyte Award Ember Award Finalist [27]
2022 Template:Screen reader-only Ignyte Award Ember Award Won [28]
2023 Africa Risen Locus Award Anthology Won[b] [29]
Script error: No such module "sort". Locus Award Novelette Finalist [29]
World Fantasy Award Short Fiction Won [30]
Script error: No such module "sort".[c] Locus Award Illustrated and Art Book Finalist [29]
NAACP Image Award Fiction Nominated [31]
Script error: No such module "sort". Booklist Editors' Choice Genre Fiction Selected [32]
Bram Stoker Award Novel Won [33]
Goodreads Choice Awards Horror Nominated [34]
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Ray Bradbury Prize Won [35]
Shirley Jackson Award Novel Won [36]
Script error: No such module "sort". Bram Stoker Award Long Fiction Nominated [33]
2024 Script error: No such module "sort". BCALA Literary Awards Fiction Honor [37]
Chautauqua Prize — Won [38]
Dragon Awards Horror Novel Nominated [39]
Locus Award Horror Novel Finalist [40]
Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award — Template:Longlisted [41]
RUSA CODES Reading List Horror Shortlisted [42]
World Fantasy Award Novel Won [43]
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2025 Script error: No such module "sort". Ignyte Award Novelette Finalist [44]
Locus Award Novelette Finalist [45]

See also

Notes

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  1. ^ With Steven Barnes and Blair Underwood
  2. ^ The award was jointly awarded to all authors included in the anthology.
  3. ^ Co-authored with Steven Barnes; illustrated by Marco Finnegan

References

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  5. ^ a b Tananarive Due – Author
  6. ^ Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights, by Patricia Stephens Due and Tananarive Due (Ballantine, 2003)
  7. ^ a b Alumni News – Fall 2001
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