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A leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Tananarive 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. Her books include The Reformatory (winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Chautauqua Prize, Bram Stoker Award, Shirley Jackson Award, World Fantasy Award, and a New York Times Notable Book), The Wishing Pool and Other Stories, Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights.She was an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She and her husband/collaborator, Steven Barnes, recently co-directed a short film horror film, "The Keeper." They also wrote "A Small Town" for Season 2 of Jordan Peele's "The Twilight Zone," and two segments of Shudder's anthology film Horror Noire.

PRAISE FOR THE REFORMATORYWorld Fantasy Award Winner, 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner, 2024You're in for a treat. The Reformatory is one of those books you can't put down. Tananarive Due hit it out of the park.-Stephen KingThe Reformatory is a masterpiece-a new American classic of the uncanny. I was gripped from the first lines to the catch-your-breath desperation of the final pages. Even in the tale's grimmest moments, Tananarive Due insists on the almost supernatural power of simple kindness. You have to read this book.-Joe Hill, New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman and Heart-Shaped BoxSo heart-smashingly good, it made me late for work. I couldn't stop reading. I needed to find out what was going to happen next, and next, and next.-Randy Boyagoda, The New York TimesThe writing here is spectacular; the pacing, engrossing; the setting, heartbreaking but honest; and the characters are given a nuance and depth rarely seen . . . A masterpiece of fiction.-Library Journal, starred reviewHaunting, atmospheric, and tightly plotted, this novel will linger in your mind long after you turn the last page.-- Crimereads.com, The Best Crime Novels of 2023A masterpiece of fiction, this novel speaks to all situations where injustice occurs, and compels its readers to act.-Library Journal, Best Horror of 2023With fully realized characters and well-placed twists, Due ratchets up the tension until the final, extraordinary showdown.-Booklist, starred reviewA vividly realized page-turner, which is at once an ingenious ghost story, a white-knuckle adventure, and an illuminating if infuriating look back at a shameful period in American jurisprudence.-Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewDeeply personal and empathetic, it's one of the most tragic and moving horror novels put to page, and will leave you emotionally devastated, in addition to simply scared.-Comics Beat on The Reformatory