Tananarive Due
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Tananarive Due (born 1966) is an American author.
Due is originally from Florida. Her mother is civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due. Due earned a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University and an M.A. in English literature from the University of Leeds. At Northwestern, she lived in the Communications Residential College.
Due was working as a journalist and columnist for the Miami Herald when she wrote her first novel, The Between, in 1995. This, like many of her subsequent books, was part of the supernatural genre. Due has also written The Black Rose,historical fiction about Madam C.J. Walker (based in part on research conducted by Alex Haley before his death) and Freedom in the Family, a non-fiction work about the civil rights struggle. She also was one of the contributors to the humor novel Naked Came the Manatee, in which various Miami area authors each contributed chapters to a mystery/thriller parody.
Due has been nominated for Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement in a First Novel for The Between and for Best Novel for My Soul to Keep. She was also nominated for an NAACP Image Award for The Black Rose. She won an American Book Award for The Living Blood.
Due is married to author Steven Barnes, whom she met in 1997 at a university panel on "The African-American Fantastic Imagination: Explorations in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror". The couple lives in Longview, Washington.
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- The Between (1995)
- Naked Came the Manatee (1996) (contributor)
- My Soul to Keep (1997)
- The Black Rose (2000)
- The Living Blood (2001)
- Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights (2003) (with Patricia Stephens Due)
- The Good House (2003)
- Mojo: Conjure Stories (2003) short story anthology (contributor)
- Joplin's Ghost 2005
