Tananarive Due

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Tananarive Due
Due reads from her book, My Soul To Take @ Apocalypse Now and Then What? @ BBF
Due reads from her book, My Soul To Take @ Apocalypse Now and Then What? @ BBF
Born (1966-01-05) January 5, 1966 (age 55)
Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.A
OccupationWriter, educator
NationalityAmerican
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. She is best 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.[1]

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.[2] Her mother named her after the French name for Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar.[3]

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.[2] At Northwestern, she lived in the Communications Residential College.[4]

Career[]

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.[5] Due has also written , historical fiction about Madam C. J. Walker (based in part on research conducted by Alex Haley before his death) and , 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 also the author of 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[6] and is also an endowed Cosby chair in the humanities at Spelman College in Atlanta.[7]

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. [1] The first course went viral and included a visit from Peele.[1]

Due was featured in the 2019 documentary film Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, produced by Shudder.[1]

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".[8] The couple lives in the Los Angeles, California area with their son, Jason.[9]

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 (Aug 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.

Other works[]

  • , historical fiction about Madam C. J. Walker[12] (2000)
  • (2003) (with Patricia Stephens Due)
  • Devil's Wake (with Steven Barnes) (2012)
  • Domino Falls (2013)
  • Ghost Summer (Collection) (2015)

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 Keep[8]
  • Nominated for an NAACP Image Award for
  • Received the NAACP Image Award for In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel (with Blair Underwood and Steven Barnes)[13]
  • 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)[14]
  • Winner of the 2016 British Fantasy Award for the short story collection Ghost Summer.

See also[]

  • List of horror fiction authors

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "What Is Black Horror? 'The Sunken Place' Professor Tananarive Due Explains". shadowandact.com. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Tananarive Due - Author
  3. ^ Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights, by Patricia Stephens Due and Tananarive Due (Ballantine, 2003)
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Alumni News - Fall 2001
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Tananarive Due | Antioch University Los Angeles". Retrieved 2013-08-31.
  7. ^ "Past - Present Chairs". Archived from the original on 2013-09-06. Retrieved 2013-08-31.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b Introduction by Gardner Dozois to "Patient Zero" by Tananarive Due in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection, p. 491.
  9. ^ "About Tananarive Due". Retrieved 2013-08-31.
  10. ^ Review of "Senora Suerte" by Eugie Foster, July 2006
  11. ^ "Tananarive Due" in Cellarius Stories, Volume 1. Cellarius, Ed., New York: 2018 (pp. 33–75, Kindle edition), ISBN 978-1-949688-02-3.
  12. ^ "Books in Brief: Fiction; Making It Big in Hair" By Charles Wilson, The New York Times, August 27, 2000.
  13. ^ 40th NAACP Image Awards Archived 2010-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ^ Carl Brandon Society Award Winners Retrieved 3-1-2011

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