Tananarive Due

{{Infobox writer

| name = Tananarive Due

| image = 2023 National Book Festival (53122448927) (cropped).jpg

| caption = Due at the 2023 National Book Festival

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|1|5}}

| birth_place = Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.

| occupation = Writer, educator

| nationality = American

| education = Medill School of Journalism (BS, MA)

| genre = Science fiction, mystery, horror

| notableworks =

| spouse = Steven Barnes (husband)

| website = {{URL|http://www.tananarivedue.com/}}

| relations= Jason (son)
Nicki (stepdaughter)

}}

Tananarive Priscilla Due ({{IPAc-en|t|ə|ˈ|n|æ|n|ə|r|iː|v|_|ˈ|dj|uː}} {{respell|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).{{Cite web |url=https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/front-page/the-2023-bram-stoker-awards-final-ballot/ |title=The 2023 Bram Stoker Awards Winners |publisher=thebramstokerawards.com |language=en |access-date=2024-06-23}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/ |title=Shirley Jackson Awards |publisher=shirleyjacksonawards.org |language=en |access-date=2024-07-14}} 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.{{Cite web |url=https://shadowandact.com/what-is-black-horror-the-sunken-place-professor-tananarive-due-explains |title=What Is Black Horror? 'The Sunken Place' Professor Tananarive Due Explains |publisher=shadowandact.com |language=en |access-date=2020-03-09}}

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. Her mother named her after the French name for Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar.Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights, by Patricia Stephens Due and Tananarive Due (Ballantine, 2003)

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.[http://authors.aalbc.com/tananari.htm Tananarive Due – Author] At Northwestern, she lived in the Communications Residential College.

Career

Due was working as a journalist and columnist for the Miami Herald when she wrote her first novel, The Between, in 1995.[http://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/northwestern/fall2001/alumninews/gettingherdue.htm Alumni News – Fall 2001] This, like many of her subsequent books, was part of the supernatural genre.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}}. 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{{Cite web|url = http://www.antiochla.edu/directory/tananarive-due/|title = Tananarive Due | Antioch University Los Angeles|access-date = 2013-08-31}} and is also an endowed Cosby chair in the humanities at Spelman College in Atlanta.{{Cite web|url = http://www.spelman.edu/academics/faculty/cosby-chairs/past-present-chairs|title = Past - Present Chairs|access-date = 2013-08-31|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130906042003/http://www.spelman.edu/academics/faculty/cosby-chairs/past-present-chairs|archive-date = 2013-09-06}}

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

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

Her novel The Reformatory was published by Saga Press in 2023.{{cite news |last1=Hand |first1=Elizabeth |title=Deaths at a Florida 'reform' school inspire a masterful horror novel |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/10/30/tananarive-due-reformatory-novel/ |access-date=2 November 2023 |date=October 30, 2023}}{{Cite web |last=Woods |first=Paula L. |date=2023-10-26 |title=Black horror is having a big moment. So is its pioneer, Tananarive Due |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-10-26/black-horror-fiction-is-having-a-big-moment-so-is-its-pioneer-tananarive-due |access-date=2023-11-19 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}

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". The couple lives in the Los Angeles, California area with their son, Jason.{{Cite web|url = http://www.tananarivedue.com/about.htm|title = About Tananarive Due|access-date = 2013-08-31}}

Bibliography

=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[http://www.tangentonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=808&Itemid=259 Review of "Senora Suerte"] by Eugie Foster, July 2006 (2006)
"The Lake" (2011)
"Enhancement", Whose Future is It? (2018)"Tananarive Due" in Cellarius Stories, Volume 1. Cellarius, Ed., New York: 2018 (pp. 33–75, Kindle edition), {{ISBN|978-1-949688-02-3}}.
"The Wishing Pool" (2021){{Cite web|last=Words|first=Tananarive Due in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-One {{!}} 4102|title=The Wishing Pool|url=https://uncannymagazine.com/article/the-wishing-pool/|access-date=2021-12-20|website=Uncanny Magazine|language=en-US}}

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width=25%\|Title !\|Year !\|First published !\|Reprinted/collected !\|Notes
Patient Zero \|2000 \|{{cite journal \|author=Due, Tananarive \|date=Aug 2000 \|title=Patient Zero \|journal=F&SF \|volume=99 \|issue=2 \|pages=5–21 \|url= }} \|{{cite book \|author=Due, Tananarive \|editor=Dozois, Gardner\|title=The year's best science fiction : eighteenth annual collection \|publisher=St. Martin's Griffin \|date=2001 \|chapter=Patient Zero}} \|
The Rider \|2023 \|{{cite book \|author=Due, Tananarive \|editor=Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams\|title=An Anthology of New Black Horror \|publisher=Penguin Random House \|date=2023 \|chapter=The Rider}} \| \|

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width=25%|Title

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Patient Zero

|2000

|{{cite journal |author=Due, Tananarive |date=Aug 2000 |title=Patient Zero |journal=F&SF |volume=99 |issue=2 |pages=5–21 |url= }}

|{{cite book |author=Due, Tananarive |editor=Dozois, Gardner|title=The year's best science fiction : eighteenth annual collection |publisher=St. Martin's Griffin |date=2001 |chapter=Patient Zero}}

The Rider

|2023

|{{cite book |author=Due, Tananarive |editor=Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams|title=An Anthology of New Black Horror |publisher=Penguin Random House |date=2023 |chapter=The Rider}}

=Other works=

The Black Rose, historical fiction about Madam C. J. Walker[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/27/books/books-in-brief-fiction-making-it-big-in-hair.html "Books in Brief: Fiction; Making It Big in Hair"]

By Charles Wilson, The New York Times, August 27, 2000. (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){{Cite book |last=Due |first=Tananarive |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O2iLEAAAQBAJ |title=The Wishing Pool and Other Stories |date=2023-04-18 |publisher=Akashic Books |isbn=978-1-63614-107-7 |language=en}}

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 KeepIntroduction by Gardner Dozois to "Patient Zero" by Tananarive Due in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection, p. 491.
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)[http://www.naacpimageawards.net/42/awards-show/40th/ 40th NAACP Image Awards] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101215211104/http://www.naacpimageawards.net/42/awards-show/40th/ |date=2010-12-15 }}
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)[http://www.carlbrandon.org/awards.html Carl Brandon Society Award Winners] Retrieved 3-1-2011
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){{Cite web |title=2020 Ignyte Awards Results |url=https://theconvention.fiyahlitmag.com/the-ignyte-awards/2020-ignyte-award-results/ |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=FIyahCon2021|date=24 February 2021 }}
Winner of the 2022 Ember Award "for unsung contributions to genre"{{cite web |last1=Asher-Perrin |first1=Emmet |title=Announcing the Winners of the 2022 Ignyte Awards! |url=https://www.tor.com/2022/09/17/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2022-ignyte-awards/ |website=Tor.com |access-date=13 March 2023 |date=18 September 2022}}
Winner of the 2023 World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction for "Incident at Bear Creek Lodge," published in Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology{{cite web |title=2023 World Fantasy Award Winners |url=https://locusmag.com/2023/10/2023-world-fantasy-awards-winners/ |website=Locus Online |date=29 October 2023 |access-date=20 November 2023}}
Winner of the 2023 Shirley Jackson Award for best novel for The Reformatory.{{cite web | url=https://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/2024/07/13/2023-shirley-jackson-awards-winners/ | title=2023 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners – the Shirley Jackson Awards }}
Winner of the 2023 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel for The Reformatory.{{Cite web |title=Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards |url=https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/about-the-awards/winners-nominees/ |access-date=2025-02-05 |language=en-US}}
Winner of the 2024 Chautauqua Prize for The Reformatory.{{Cite web |last=Borgstrom |first=Megan |date=2024-05-30 |title=Tananarive Due’s The Reformatory: A Novel Wins 2024 Chautauqua Prize |url=https://www.chq.org/announcements/tananarive-dues-the-reformatory-a-novel-wins-2024-chautauqua-prize/ |access-date=2025-02-05 |website=Chautauqua Institution |language=en-US}}
Winner of the 2024 World Fantasy Award for The Reformatory.{{Cite web |title=World Fantasy Awards Winners – Stories Rule Press |url=https://storiesrulepress.com/world-fantasy-awards-winners/ |access-date=2025-02-05 |language=en-GB}}
Winner of the 2024 L.A. Times Book Prize for science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction for The Reformatory.{{Cite web |last=Galt |first=Jessica |last2= |last3= |last4= |date=2024-04-19 |title=L.A. Times Book Prize winners named in a ceremony filled with support for USC valedictorian Asna Tabassum |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-19/la-times-book-prizes-winners-2024 |url-status=live |access-date=2025-02-05 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}

References

External links

[http://www.tananarivedue.com/ Official website]
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[https://www.npr.org/2023/11/02/1209995189/book-review-the-reformatory-by-tananarive-due Book review, The Reformatory by Tananarive Due], November 11, 2023 on NPR

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