Imagining Future Histories: Black Speculative Fiction
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About Tananarive Due
"Tananarive Due is a former Cosby Chair in the Humanities at Spelman College (2012-2014), where she taught screenwriting, creative writing and journalism. She also teaches in the creative writing MFA program at Antioch University Los Angeles. The American Book Award winner and NAACP Image Award recipient is the author of twelve novels and a civil rights memoir. In 2010, she was inducted into the Medill School of Journalism's Hall of Achievement at Northwestern University.
Due's novella Ghost Summer, published in the 2008 anthology The Ancestors, received the 2008 Kindred Award from the Carl Brandon Society, and her short fiction has appeared in best-of-the-year anthologies of science fiction and fantasy. Due is a leading voice in black speculative fiction; a paper on Due's work recently was presented at the College Language Association (CLA) Conference. Due has a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University and an M.A. in English literature from the University of Leeds, England, where she specialized in Nigerian literature as a Rotary Foundation Scholar." - tananarivedue.com
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Featured works on display
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Call number: PS3554.U3143 B58 2008
Publication due: 2008-06-01 -
Call Number: PS3554.U3143 B53 2000
Publication date: 2000-06-06 -
Call number: PS3554.U3143 L5 2002
Publication date: 2002-01-01
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The Good House by Tananarive Due Award-winning author Tananarive Due's spine- tingling tale of supernatural suspense weaves a stronger net than ever' (Kirkus Reviews). As a woman tries to understand her son's suicide, she uncovers startling truths about powers that she has inherited from her family and the role she must consequently play in order to save her hometown from the forces of evil. Expertly weaving a subtle tapestry of fear in this 'subtle tale of terror' (Graham Joyce), Due takes her place alongside literary horror masters such as Stephen King and Anne Rice.'
Call Number: PS3554.U3143 G66 2003ISBN: 0743449010Publication Date: 2004-07-06
Interview
"Tananarive Due Offers Insight on Writing Beyond Your Reality" uploaded by I Am Black Sci-Fi via YouTube.com
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