TANANARIVE DUE (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. 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.
The Reformatory is the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Chautauqua Prize, Bram Stoker Award, Shirley Jackson Award, World Fantasy Award, and a New York Times Notable Book). It delves into haunting historical fiction, shedding light on the tragedies of the infamous Dozier School for Boys.
#Attend the Lit Chat Interview
This Lit Chat Interview is a 60-minute program with a 40-minute conversation between author and a local interviewer, followed by 20 minutes of audience Q&A.
#Main Library, 303 N. Laura St.
2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24 — Register
A book signing will follow with books available for sale from The Literary Lounge. Note: Books can be pre-ordered on their site and picked up at the program.
This program is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
Did you know that all of our Lit Chat authors' books count toward your Jax Stacks Reading Challenge completion? Find out what other authors we're hosting this year and join in the fun!
#Keep Reading
Tananarive Due's books include The Wishing Pool and Other Stories, Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. Her latest novel Mazywood (September 22) is a literary thriller following the grandson of a famous Black actress who returns to his grandmother’s cabin retreat in the California mountains only to encounter the legacy of her rage born in Old Hollywood. She is also co-author of a civil rights memoir, Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights (with her late mother, Patricia Stephens Due).
Check out more of her books from the Library!
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- Kindred, by Octavia Butler
- The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead
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