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Tananarive Due received the 2002 American Book Award for The Living Blood, which was also named one of Publisher's Weekly's Best Novels of the Year in 2001. She has a B.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University and an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Leeds, England. Due has taught at the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer's Workshop at Michigan State University, the University of Miami, and at Cleveland State University. She now lives in Longview, Washington, with her husband, novelist and television writer Steven Barnes.
Due shows herself true to her own powerful gift. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) [M]ore than just a ghost story is Due's sense of musical and cultural history.... Even while she brings to life Scott Joplin the man, Due makes us appreciate Scott Joplin the icon, the symbol. This understanding gives Joplin's Ghost its haunting power. -- The Washington Post In this ambitious and action-packed novel, Tananarive Due blurs genre boundaries as adroitly as her ghost walks through walls. Part love story, part ghost story, part historical fiction, part contemporary adult drama, this book is difficult to categorize -- and impossible to put down. -- Valerie Boyd, author of Wrapped in Rainbows:The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
