{"birth_date": "1966", "remote_ids": {"viaf": "59266210", "wikidata": "Q7682284", "isni": "0000000114453527", "musicbrainz": "0e9d5dec-f31b-47d3-bb8a-e07d40a9449b", "goodreads": "23417", "imdb": "nm4261524", "lc_naf": "n95010862", "opac_sbn": "SBTV017280", "youtube": "UCxW9bFeKe7zzutyqOwROAmw", "librarything": "duetananarive", "storygraph": "944808e0-21fb-497e-b783-098be4adca46"}, "links": [{"title": "Tananarive Due - Website", "url": "https://www.tananarivedue.com/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "key": "/authors/OL383522A", "personal_name": "Tananarive Due", "name": "Tananarive Due", "source_records": ["bwb:9781250871688"], "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "photos": [15177440], "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Tananarive Due (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. \r\n\r\n A leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include ***The Reformatory*** (winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Chautauqua Prize, Bram Stoker Award, Shirley Jackson Award, World Fantasy Award, and a New York Times Notable Book), ***The Wishing Pool and Other Stories***, ***Ghost Summer: Stories***, ***My Soul to Keep***, and ***The Good House***. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored ***Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights***. \r\n\r\nShe was an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking documentary *Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror*. She and her husband/collaborator, Steven Barnes, wrote \"A Small Town\" for Season 2 of Jordan Peele\u2019s \"The Twilight Zone\" on Paramount Plus, and two segments of Shudder\u2019s anthology film *Horror Noire*. They also co-wrote their Black Horror graphic novel ***The Keeper***, illustrated by Marco Finnegan. Due and Barnes co-host a podcast, \"Lifewriting: Write for Your Life!\" She and her husband live with their son, Jason."}, "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-05-30T13:37:11.982042"}}