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Tananarive Due :

BIO:

TANANARIVE DUE-pronounced tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo - is a writer who defies easy categorization. Her novels The Living Blood (Pocket Books, 2001), My Soul to Keep (HarperCollins 1997) and The Between (HarperCollins, 1995), are journeys into supernatural suspense-bringing a unique African-American flavor and sensibility to tales that keep readers awake at night. Yet, she is also the author of The Black Rose (One World/Ballantine, 2000), a historical novel based on the research of Alex Haley. In January, One World/Ballantine will publish Due's family civil rights memoir, Freedom in the Family. The Living Blood, raves Publishers Weekly, "should set the standard for supernatural thrillers of the new millennium." And Stephen King calls its predecessor, My Soul to Keep, "really big and really satisfying, an eerie epic that bears favorable comparison to Interview with the Vampire." Publishers Weekly magazine named The Living Blood and My Soul to Keep two of the best novels of the year, and My Soul to Keep is currently being produced as a feature film by Blair Underwood, who will also star in it. The In Between and My Soul to Keep were finalists for the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Awards. Due's next supernatural novel, entitled The Good House, will be published by Pocket Books in 2003. Due's acclaimed historical novel the Black Rose, based on the life of pioneering entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker, was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. In Freedom in the Family-which Due co-authored with her mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due-she recalls her childhood as the daughter of civil rights activists while her mother recalls being swept into the civil rights movement as a college student in the 1960's, leading to her participation in the historic first "Jail-In" of the student sit-in movement.

Due has a B.S. in journalism from Northwest 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. A former lifelong Floridian, she now lives in Longview, Washington, with her husband, novelist and television writer Steven Barnes.