Tananarive Due

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Tananarive Due was born on January 5, 1966, in Tallahassee, Florida, the eldest daughter of civil rights activists Patricia Stephens Due and John D. Due Jr.; her first name references Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. She earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and a master's degree in English literature, focusing on Nigerian literature, from the University of Leeds. Due worked as a journalist and columnist for the Miami Herald before turning to fiction, publishing her debut novel, The Between, in 1995 while still working in journalism. She has since taught at UCLA, Spelman College, and Antioch University Los Angeles. Her novels include My Soul to Keep (1997), The Living Blood (2001), and The Good House (2003); The Living Blood received the American Book Award. Her 2023 novel The Reformatory won the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the World Fantasy Award, and she is widely recognized as a leading voice in Black horror fiction.

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• The Reformatory (2023) · The Reformatory Core Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 1 book
• Award recognitions across all universes: 1 (1 won)

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