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Tananarive Due

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Tananarive Due is a novelist and a creative writing teacher who has worked as a journalist. She won the American Book Award in 2002 for her novel The Living Blood.



The first zombie movie I remember seeing was George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, probably when I was in high school—and I was mesmerized by its iconic shopping mall gore and mayhem. My mother raised me on the old Universal horror movies like The Wolfman, which were scary, but Dawn of the Deadwas jaw-droppingly shocking. I was hooked on zombies.
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Average rating: 3.92 · 6294 ratings · 790 reviews · 36 distinct works
My Soul to Keep (African Im...
4.22 of 5 stars 422 avg rating — 1030 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions
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The Living Blood (African I...
4.28 of 5 stars 428 avg rating — 674 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions
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The Good House
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Blood Colony (African Immor...
3.91 of 5 stars 391 avg rating — 354 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
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The Between
3.89 of 5 stars 389 avg rating — 339 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions
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Joplin's Ghost
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The Black Rose
4.12 of 5 stars 412 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions
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My Soul to Take (African Im...
4.24 of 5 stars 424 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
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The Lake
3.16 of 5 stars 316 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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I love Baldwin's writing style, but this novel has been in my bathroom (read: "library") for months, and I'm only making progress a few pages at a time. An original paperback copy sat in my office for years before that. I was curious about a novel fe...more
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