Occupation Journalist, novelist Parents Patricia Stephens Due Nationality American Movies Danger Word | Name Tananarive Due Children Jason Barnes Spouse Steven Barnes (m. 1998) | |
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Born January 5, 1966 (age 58)
Tallahassee, Florida, U.S. ( 1966-01-05 ) Genre Science fiction, mystery Relatives Jason (son)
Nicki (stepdaughter) Role Author · tananarivedue.com Books My Soul to Keep, The Living Blood, The Good House, Devil's Wake: A Novel, Blood Colony Similar People Steven Barnes, Patricia Stephens Due, Octavia E Butler, Blair Underwood, Brandon Massey | ||
Ashlee Blackwell and Tananarive Due on HORROR NOIR
Tananarive Priscilla Due ( ) (born January 5, 1966) is an American author and educator.
Contents
- Ashlee Blackwell and Tananarive Due on HORROR NOIR
- Early life and education
- Career
- Personal life
- Awards and recognition
- References
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.
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. 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. 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 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 and is also an endowed Cosby chair in the humanities at Spelman College in Atlanta.
Personal life
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". The couple lives in the Los Angeles, CA area with their son, Jason.