Tananarive Due
| Tananarive Due | |
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| Born |
January 5, 1966 Tallahassee, Florida, U.S. |
| Occupation | Journalist, novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Science fiction, mystery |
| Spouse | Steven Barnes (husband) |
| Relatives | Jason (son) Nicki (stepdaughter) |
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Tananarive Priscilla Due (tuh-NAN-uh-reev DOO) (born January 5, 1966) is an American author and educator.
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.
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.
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