Tananarive Due Biography
Tananarive Priscilla Due is an American author and educator. She is also a film historian specializing in black horror. Due was a journalist and columnist for the Miami Herald when she penned her debut novel, The Between, in 1995.
Tananarive Due Age
She was born Tananarive Priscilla Due on 5 January 1966, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America. She is 58 years old as of January 2024.
Tananarive Due Education
Due received a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and an M.A. in English literature, with a focus on Nigerian literature, from the University of Leeds.
Tananarive Due Family- Sibling
Due was born in Tallahassee, Florida, as the oldest of three daughters to civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due and civil rights lawyer John D. Due Jr. Her mother called her after the French name for Madagascar’s capital, Antananarivo.
Tananarive Due Husband- Spouse
Due is married to novelist Steven Barnes, whom she met in 1997 during a Clark Atlanta University discussion on “The African-American Fantastic Imagination: Explorations in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror”. The couple resides in Los Angeles, California, with their son, Jason.
Tananarive Due Career
Due was a journalist and columnist for the Miami Herald when she penned her debut novel, The Between, in 1995. This, like many of her future writings, fell under the supernatural genre. Due also penned The Black Rose, a historical novel about Madam C. J. Walker (based in part on Alex Haley’s research before his death), and Freedom in the Family, a nonfiction piece on the civil rights movement. She contributed to the humor novel Naked Came the Manatee, a mystery/thriller parody to which other Miami-area authors contributed chapters. Due also wrote the African Immortals novel series and Tennyson Hardwick novels.
Due is an associated faculty member in Antioch University Los Angeles’ creative writing MFA program, as well as an endowed Cosby Chair in the Humanities at Spelman College in Atlanta. Following the premiere of the film Get Out in 2017, she created a course at UCLA called “The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival, and the Black Horror Aesthetic.” The first course went viral and featured a visit from Peele. Shudder created the 2019 documentary film Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, in which Due appears. Saga Press published her novel, The Reformatory: A Novel, in 2023. He is also a film historian specializing in black horror.
Tananarive Net Worth
Due has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.
