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    W. Andrew Robinson

    Tananarive Due
    Due at the 2023 National Book Festival
    Due at the 2023 National Book Festival
    Born (1966-01-05) January 5, 1966 (age 59)
    Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.
    OccupationWriter, educator
    NationalityAmerican
    EducationMedill School of Journalism (BS, MA)
    GenreScience fiction, mystery, horror
    SpouseSteven Barnes (husband)
    RelativesJason (son)
    Nicki (stepdaughter)
    Website
    www.tananarivedue.com

    Tananarive Priscilla Due (/təˈnænəriːv ˈdjuː/ tə-NAN-ə-reev DEW) (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

    Novels

    Speculative fiction

    African Immortals series

    Mysteries

    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

    Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes
    Patient Zero 2000 Due, Tananarive (August 2000). "Patient Zero". F&SF. 99 (2): 5–21. Due, Tananarive (2001). "Patient Zero". In Dozois, Gardner (ed.). The year's best science fiction : eighteenth annual collection. St. Martin's Griffin.
    The Rider 2023 Due, Tananarive (2023). "The Rider". In Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams (ed.). An Anthology of New Black Horror. Penguin Random House.

    Other works

    Awards and recognition

    See also

    References

    1. ^ "The 2023 Bram Stoker Awards Winners". thebramstokerawards.com. Retrieved June 23, 2024.
    2. ^ "Shirley Jackson Awards". shirleyjacksonawards.org. Retrieved July 14, 2024.
    3. ^ a b c d "What Is Black Horror? 'The Sunken Place' Professor Tananarive Due Explains". shadowandact.com. Retrieved March 9, 2020.
    4. ^ a b Tananarive Due – Author
    5. ^ Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights, by Patricia Stephens Due and Tananarive Due (Ballantine, 2003)
    6. ^ a b Alumni News – Fall 2001
    7. ^ Mary A. Mohanraj,"Tananarive Due" in Richard Bleiler, Ed. Supernatural Fiction Writers: Contemporary Fantasy and Horror. New York: Thomson/Gale, 2003 (pp. 309–314), ISBN 9780684312507.
    8. ^ "Tananarive Due | Antioch University Los Angeles". Retrieved August 31, 2013.
    9. ^ "Past - Present Chairs". Archived from the original on September 6, 2013. Retrieved August 31, 2013.
    10. ^ Hand, Elizabeth (October 30, 2023). "Deaths at a Florida 'reform' school inspire a masterful horror novel". Retrieved November 2, 2023.
    11. ^ Woods, Paula L. (October 26, 2023). "Black horror is having a big moment. So is its pioneer, Tananarive Due". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 19, 2023.
    12. ^ a b Introduction by Gardner Dozois to "Patient Zero" by Tananarive Due in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection, p. 491.
    13. ^ "About Tananarive Due". Retrieved August 31, 2013.
    14. ^ Review of "Senora Suerte" by Eugie Foster, July 2006
    15. ^ "Tananarive Due" in Cellarius Stories, Volume 1. Cellarius, Ed., New York: 2018 (pp. 33–75, Kindle edition), ISBN 978-1-949688-02-3.
    16. ^ Words, Tananarive Due in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-One | 4102. "The Wishing Pool". Uncanny Magazine. Retrieved December 20, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
    17. ^ "Books in Brief: Fiction; Making It Big in Hair" By Charles Wilson, The New York Times, August 27, 2000.
    18. ^ Due, Tananarive (April 18, 2023). The Wishing Pool and Other Stories. Akashic Books. ISBN 978-1-63614-107-7.
    19. ^ 40th NAACP Image Awards Archived 2010-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
    20. ^ Carl Brandon Society Award Winners Retrieved 3-1-2011
    21. ^ "2020 Ignyte Awards Results". FIyahCon2021. February 24, 2021. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
    22. ^ Asher-Perrin, Emmet (September 18, 2022). "Announcing the Winners of the 2022 Ignyte Awards!". Tor.com. Retrieved March 13, 2023.
    23. ^ "2023 World Fantasy Award Winners". Locus Online. October 29, 2023. Retrieved November 20, 2023.
    24. ^ "2023 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners – the Shirley Jackson Awards".
    25. ^ "Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards". Retrieved February 5, 2025.
    26. ^ Borgstrom, Megan (May 30, 2024). "Tananarive Due's The Reformatory: A Novel Wins 2024 Chautauqua Prize". Chautauqua Institution. Retrieved February 5, 2025.
    27. ^ "World Fantasy Awards Winners – Stories Rule Press". Retrieved February 5, 2025.
    28. ^ Galt, Jessica (April 19, 2024). "L.A. Times Book Prize winners named in a ceremony filled with support for USC valedictorian Asna Tabassum". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 5, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
    Credit: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tananarive_Due

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