About The Reformatory
The Reformatory has been named a New York Times Notable Book, an ALA Notable Book, and has received the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Chautauqua Prize. In its pages, Due delves into haunting historical fiction, unraveling the untold story of a deeply wronged ancestor. The narrative sheds light on the tragedies of Florida’s infamous Dozier School for Boys, exposing a painful chapter of our nation’s history with honesty, imagination, and compassion. No wonder Stephen King says that The Reformatory is “one of those books you can’t put down…Due hit it out of the park.”
About TANANARIVE DUE
Tananarive Due is the recipient of an American Book Award and an NAACP Image Award. She was an executive producer on Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror and she teaches Afrofuturism and Black Horror at UCLA. 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 co-author of a civil rights memoir, Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights, written with her late mother, Patricia Stephens Due.
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