Tananarive Due
| Tananarive Due | |
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| Born | January 5, 1966 Tallahassee, Florida |
| Occupation | Journalist, Novelist |
| Genres | Science fiction |
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www.tananarivedue.com |
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Tananarive Due (tuh-NAN-uh-reev DOO; born January 5, 1966) is an American author.
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[edit] Biography
Tananarive Priscilla 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.[1] Her mother named her after Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar.[2]
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 Glendora, California with their son, Jason and her stepdaughter, Nicki.
[edit] Career
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.[4]
Due was working as a journalist and columnist for the Miami Herald when she wrote her first novel, The Between, in 1995.[4] 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 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.[5]
[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 (2008)
- My Soul To Take (2011)
[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 Novel (2008) (with Blair Underwood and Steven Barnes)
[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[6] (September 2006)
[edit] Other Works
- The Black Rose, historical fiction about Madam C.J. Walker[7] (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
- Received the NAACP Image Award for In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel (with Blair Underwood and Steven Barnes)[8]
- 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)[9]
[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
[edit] References
- ^ a b Tananarive Due - Author
- ^ Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights, by Patricia Stephens Due and Tananarive Due (Ballantine, 2003)
- ^ a b Introduction by Gardner Dozois to "Patient Zero" by Tananarive Due in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection, p. 491
- ^ a b Alumni News - Fall 2001
- ^ 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
- ^ 40th NAACP Image Awards
- ^ Carl Brandon Society Award Winners Retrieved 3-1-2011
[edit] External links
- African American novelists
- American short story writers
- African American writers
- African American science fiction writers
- American horror writers
- Clarion Workshop
- People from Tallahassee, Florida
- People from Longview, Washington
- 1966 births
- Living people
- Women science fiction and fantasy writers
- African American female writers
