TANANARIVE DUE TANIA LOPEZ

EARLY LIFE Born January 5,1966 Tallahassee, Florida Named after Antananarivo, capital of Madagascar Mom; Patricia Stephens, Civil Rights Activist Dad; John D. Due Jr. Civil, Rights Lawyer

EARLY LIFE CONT. As a young girl, she lived in white neighborhoods, where she felt unsafe and faced racism During high school she interned at the Miami Herald During the summers, she was on programs for aspiring writers at Northwestern University

After beginning career as a reporter at Miami Herald, she interviewed Anne Rice, and got inspired to pursue her career as a novelist Worked for Miami Herald as a journalist and columnist when she wrote her first novel The between Earned B.S in Journalism M.A in English literature

“Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you. “ - Blood Colony

MY SOUL TO KEEP  First of the immortal series  1997  Jessica an investigate reporter who after the murder of her best friend, discovers something she never imagined  Dawit in immortal who swore himself to his brothers  Kills anyone who has any slight doubt of who he is

HER WRITINGS Themes Supernatural Suspense mysterious Histories

FICTION NOVELS The between ( 1995) Her first novel The Good House (2003) Joplins Ghost (2005)

AFRICAN IMMORTALS SERIES My Soul to Keep (1997) The living blood (2001) Blood Colony (2008) My Soul to Take (2011) Mysteries Naked Came the Manatee (1996, contributor )

SHORT STORIES Like Daughter (2000) Patient Zero ( 2001) Trial Day ( 2003) Aftermoon ( 2004) Senora Suerte (2006)

NOVELS Casanegra (2007) In the night of the heat (2008) From cape town with love (2010) South by Southeast (2012)

Historical Fiction The Black Rose (2000), about Madam C.J Walker Freedom in the Family: A mother-Daughter memoir of the fight for Civil Rights which she wrote with her mom (2003)

AWARDS American Book Award ( 2002) Black Issues Book Review Award 2003 For best Civil Rights Memoir

PERSONAL LIFE Married Steven Barnes, had a son and live at Southern California with her stepdaughter Nicki Wrote a novel with her husband in 2012 called Devils Wake Teaches Creative writing at Antioch University in L.A Is the Cosby Chair in the Humanities at spelman college where she teaches Screenwriting and Journalism Member of The Writers Guild of America (WGA)

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