Tananarive Due Author, Bio, Wiki, Age, Husband, Books, And Net Worth

Tananarive Due Bio | Wiki

Tananarive Due ( Full name: Tananarive Priscilla Due)  is an American author and educator.  She won the American Book Award for her novel titled The Living Blood.  Tananarive is best known as a film historian with expertise in Black horror. Currently, she teaches a course at UCLA called “The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival and the Black Horror Aesthetic”. This course focuses on the Jordan Peele film Get Out.

Tananarive Due Age

She was born on January 5, 1966, in Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America. Tananarive is 56 years old.

Tananarive Due Height

She is a woman of average stature. Tananarive stands at the height of 5 ft 4 in ( Approx 1.6m).

Tananarive Due Family

She was born and raised by her parents in  Tallahassee, Florida. Tananarive is the oldest of three daughters of civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due and civil rights lawyer John D. Due Jr. She was named by her mother after the French name Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. Tananarive holds American nationality but belongs to the African-American ethnicity.

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Tananarive Due Education

After high school, Tananarive joined Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She studied there and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism. While studying at  Northwestern, she lived in the Communications Residential College. From there, she went to further her studies at the University of Leeds. Tananarive graduated with an M.A. in English literature, with an emphasis on Nigerian literature.

Tananarive Due Husband

She is happily married to author Steven Barnes. The two met each other at a Clark Atlanta University panel in 1997 on “The African-American Fantastic Imagination: Explorations in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror”. The couple has a son called Jason. Currently,  Tananarive lives in Los Angeles, California with her family.

Tananarive Due Author

When she wrote her first novel, The Between, in 1995, Tananarive was working as a journalist and columnist for the Miami Herald. Like many of her subsequent books, this novel was part of the supernatural genre. Tananarive has written other books such as The Black Rose, historical fiction about Madam C. J. Walker (based in part on research conducted by Alex Haley before his death).

She is also the author of Freedom in the Family, a non-fiction work about the civil rights struggle. Tananarive was one of the contributors to the humor novel titled Naked Came the Manatee, in which different Miami-area authors each contributed chapters to a mystery/thriller parody. She authored the African Immortals novel series as well as the Tennyson Hardwick novels.

Tananarive Due The Between

Her first novel titled The Between was published in 1995, In the following year, the novel was nominated for the 1996 Bram Stoker Award. The novel is about a middle-class African American couple’s life is shattered when the wife begins receiving death threats. The husband starts to experience an alternative reality so real that he has trouble grasping which is real.

Tananarive Due My Soul To Keep | Blood Colony

In 1997, her African Immortals series titled My Soul to Keep was published. This is the first book in Tananarive’s African Immortals Series. My Soul to Keep was followed by The Living Blood published in 2001. In 2008, she published her third book titled Blood Colony,

Tananarive Due Ghost Summer

In 2015, Tananarive published her Speculative fiction titled Ghost Summer: Stories. The novel won her Carl Brandon Kindred Awar in 2008 after it appeared in the anthology The Ancestors (2008). Tananarive became the winner of the 2016 British Fantasy Award for the short story collection Ghost Summer.

Tananarive Due The Good House

Her Speculative fiction novel titled The Good House was published in 2003 by Atria Books. The story in this novel follows Angela Toussaint as she returns to her late grandmother’s home in Sacajawea, Washington. The novel has been reviewed by Horror Books: The Old Horror and the New Dark Fantasy By MARK ATHITAKIS, The New York Times, October 31, 2004.

Tananarive Due Horror Noire

Currently,  Tananarive is a member of the affiliate faculty in the creative writing MFA program at Antioch University Los Angeles. She is also an endowed Cosby Chair in the Humanities at Spelman College in Atlanta. After the release of the 2017 film Get Out, Tananarive developed a course at UCLA  titled “The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival, And The Black Horror Aesthetic.” The first course went viral and included a visit from Peele. In 2019, she appeared in a documentary film titled Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, produced by Shudder.

Tananarive Due African Immortals Series

African Immortals series  written by Tananarive include:
– 1997 My Soul to Keep
– 2001 The Living Blood
– 2008 Blood Colony
– 2011 My Soul To Take

Tananarive Due Short Stories

– 2000 “Like Daughter”, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
– 2003 “Trial Day”, Mojo: Conjure Stories
– 2004 “Aftermoon”, Dark Matter: Reading the Bones
– 2006 “Senora Suerte”, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
– 2011 “The Lake”
– 2018 “Enhancement”, Whose Future is It?
– 2021 “The Wishing Pool”

Tananarive Due Books |  Books In Order

Speculative fiction
– 1995 The Between
– 2003 The Good House
– 2005 Joplin’s Ghost
– 2015 Ghost Summer: Stories

Mysteries
– 1996 Naked Came the Manatee (contributor)

The Tennyson Hardwick novels
– 2007 Casanegra ( with Blair Underwood and Steven Barnes)
– 2008 In the Night of the Heat ( with Blair Underwood and Steven Barnes)
– 2010 From Cape Town with Love ( with Blair Underwood and Steven Barnes)
– 2012 South by Southeast ( with Blair Underwood and Steven Barnes)

Tananarive Due Net Worth

She is an American author and educator with an estimated net worth of $3,683,624

How Old Is Tananarive Due

Tananarive is 56 years old. She was born on January 5, 1966, in Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America.

Is Tananarive Due Married

She married to author Steven Barnes. The two met each other at a Clark Atlanta University panel in 1997. The couple has a son called Jason. Currently,  Tananarive lives in Los Angeles, California with her family.

Who Is Tananarive Due

Tananarive is an American author and educator.  She won the American Book Award for her novel titled The Living Blood.  Tananarive gained fame as a film historian with expertise in Black horror. Currently, she teaches a course at UCLA called “The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival and the Black Horror Aesthetic”.