Tananarive Due
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| Tananarive Due | |
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 Tananarive Due |
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| Born | 1966 |
| Occupation | Journalist, Novelist |
| Genres | Science fiction |
Tananarive Due (tuh-NAN-uh-reev DOO; born 1966) is an American author.
Due is originally from Florida. Her mother is civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due.[1] Due earned a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University and an M.A. in English literature, with an emphasis on Nigerian literature, from the University of Leeds.[1] At Northwestern, she lived in the Communications Residential College.[2]
Due was working as a journalist and columnist for the Miami Herald when she wrote her first novel, The Between, in 1995.[2] 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 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".[3] The couple lives in Longview, Washington.
Due has noted that her upcoming releases will be the sequels Blood Colony in the summer of 2008 and In The Night Of The Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Story in the fall of 2008.[4]
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Speculative Fiction Novels
- The Between (1995)
- The Good House (2003)
- Joplin's Ghost (2005)
[edit] African Immortals Series
- My Soul to Keep (1997)
- The Living Blood (2001)
- Blood Colony due in the summer of 2008
[edit] Mysteries
- Naked Came the Manatee (1996) (contributor)
- Casanegra (novel) (2007) (with Blair Underwood and Steven Barnes)
- In The Night Of The Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Story in the fall of 2008.
[edit] Short Stories
- Like Daughter, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (2000)
- Patient Zero, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection (2001)
- Trial Day, Mojo: Conjure Stories (2003)
- Aftermoon, Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (2004)
- Senora Suerte, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction[5] (September 2006)
[edit] Other Works
- The Black Rose, historical fiction about Madam C.J. Walker[6] (2000)
- Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights (2003) (with Patricia Stephens Due)
[edit] Awards
- 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[3]
- Nominated for an NAACP Image Award for The Black Rose
- The American Book Award for The Living Blood
[edit] Interviews
- TANANARIVE DUE: Unique Name for a New Dark Star by Paula Guran on DarkEcho.com (1997)
- Tananarive Due: 'My Soul to Keep' on NPR, All Things Considered, October 31, 1997 (Audio)
- Patricia Stevens Due and Tananarive Due on NPR, Fresh Air from WHYY, January 16, 2003 (Audio)
- A Conversation with Tananarive Due, Part 1 on NPR, News & Notes, January 17, 2006 (Audio)
- A Conversation with Tananarive Due, Part 2 on NPR, News & Notes, January 18, 2006 (Audio)
- Inside "Casanegra" Discussion with Tananarive Due, Blair Underwood, and Steven Barnes on NPR, News & Notes , July 2, 2007 (Audio)
- Black Science Fiction and Fantasy with Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes, and Sheree R. Thomas on NPR, News & Notes, August 13, 2007 (Audio)
- League of Reluctant Adults Interview: Tananarive Due (2008)
[edit] See also
- List of horror fiction authors
- Category:Science fiction writers of color
[edit] References
- ^ a b Tananarive Due - Author
- ^ a b Alumni News - Fall 2001
- ^ a b Introduction by Gardner Dozois to "Patient Zero" by Tananarive Due in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection, p. 491
- ^ Urban-Reviews.com - On The Line With Radiah Hubbert
- ^ Review of Senora Suerte by Eugie Foster, July 2006
- ^ Books in Brief: Fiction; Making It Big in Hair By CHARLES WILSON, New York Times, August 27, 2000
