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Tananarive Due

Biography

Tananarive Due

Tananarive Due is an American Book Award and NAACP Image Award­–winning author, who was an executive producer on Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror for Shudder and teaches Afrofuturism and Black Horror at UCLA. She and her husband, science fiction author Steven Barnes, cowrote the graphic novel THE KEEPER and an episode for Season 2 of "The Twilight Zone" for Paramount Plus and Monkeypaw Productions. Due is the author of several novels and two short story collections: GHOST SUMMER: Stories and THE WISHING POOL AND OTHER STORIES. She is also coauthor 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).

Tananarive Due

Books by Tananarive Due

The Reformatory
by Tananarive Due - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Horror

Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie’s journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory. Robbie has a talent for seeing ghosts, or haints. But what was once a comfort to him after the loss of his mother has become a window to the truth of what happens at the reformatory. Boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, but the haints Robbie sees hint at worse things. Meanwhile, Gloria is rallying every family member and connection in Florida to find a way to get Robbie out before it’s too late.