1. Tananarive Priscilla Due was born on January 5,1966 and is an American author and educator.
10 Facts About Tananarive Due
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Tananarive Due is known as a film historian with expertise in Black horror.
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Tananarive Due teaches a course at UCLA called "The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival and the Black Horror Aesthetic", which focuses on the Jordan Peele film Get Out.
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Tananarive Due's mother named her after the French name for Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar.
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Tananarive Due was working as a journalist and columnist for the Miami Herald when she wrote her first novel, The Between, in 1995.
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Tananarive Due authored the African Immortals novel series and the Tennyson Hardwick novels.
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Tananarive Due is a member of the affiliate faculty in the creative writing MFA program at Antioch University Los Angeles and is an endowed Cosby chair in the humanities at Spelman College in Atlanta.
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Tananarive Due developed a course at UCLA called "The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival and the Black Horror Aesthetic" after the release of the 2017 film Get Out.
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Tananarive Due was featured in the 2019 documentary film Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, produced by Shudder.
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Tananarive Due is married to author Steven Barnes, whom she met in 1997 at a Clark Atlanta University panel on "The African-American Fantastic Imagination: Explorations in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror".