Itabari Njeri
American novelist
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Itabari Njeri is an American journalist, novelist, and memoirist.
Occupation
- Journalist
- novelist
- memoirist
EducationBoston University (BSc)
Columbia University (MS)
Harvard University (PhD)
Columbia University (MS)
Harvard University (PhD)
Notable awardsAmerican Book Award (1990)
Itabari Njeri | |
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| Education | Boston University (BSc) Columbia University (MS) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Notable awards | American Book Award (1990) |
Life
Njeri was raised in Brooklyn and Harlem. She graduated from Boston University with a BSc, then from Columbia University with an MS.[1]
In 1978, she joined the Miami Herald, and then later accepted a position at the Los Angeles Times.[1]
In 1992, she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.[2]
In 1995, she was appointed writer-in-residence and visiting lecturer at Washington University in St. Louis. She then pursued a PhD in the history of American civilization at Harvard University, focusing on race, gender, and violence in US film and literature.[1]
Her work has appeared in Harper's Magazine.[3]
Awards
- 1990 American Book Award for Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone[1]
Works
Books
- Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone: Family Portraits and Personal Escapades. Vintage Books. 1991. ISBN 978-0-679-73242-6.
- The Last Plantation: Color, Conflict, and Identity: Reflections of a New World Black. Houghton Mifflin. 1997. ISBN 978-0-395-77191-4.
- Shadowed Feats: Untold Story. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2006. ISBN 978-0-374-26185-6.
- The Secret Life of Fred Astaire[citation needed]
Book chapters
- "The Last Plantation". 'Mixed race' studies: a reader. Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe (ed.). Routledge. 2004. ISBN 978-0-415-32163-1.
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