Itabari Njeri
American novelist
- Journalist
- novelist
- memoirist
Columbia University (MS)
Harvard University
Itabari Njeri is an American journalist, novelist, and memoirist.
Life
Njeri was raised in Brooklyn and Harlem. She graduated from Boston University, and Columbia University with an M.S. In 1978, she joined the Miami Herald, and then The Los Angeles Times. In 1995, she was writer in residence at Washington University in St. Louis. She studied at Harvard University.[1]
Her work appeared in Harper's.[2]
Awards
- 1990 American Book Award
Works
- 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
Anthologies
- Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe, ed. (2004). "The Last Plantation". 'Mixed race' studies: a reader. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-32163-1.
References
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American Book Awards winners (1980–1999)
- Douglas Woolf
- Edward Dorn
- Jayne Cortez
- Leslie Marmon Silko
- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
- Milton Murayama
- Quincy Troupe
- Rudolfo Anaya
- Alta
- Alan Chong Lau
- Bienvenido N. Santos
- Helen Adam
- Lionel Mitchell
- Miguel Algarín
- Nicholasa Mohr
- Peter Blue Cloud
- Robert Kelly
- Rose Drachler
- Susan Howe
- Toni Cade Bambara
- Cecil Brown
- Gary Snyder
- Howard Schwartz/ Mark Podwal
- Imamu Amiri Baraka
- Jesús Colón
- Joseph Bruchac
- Maurice Kenny
- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
- Miné Okubo
- Paule Marshall
- Ruthanne Lum McCunn / You-shan Tang / Ellen Lai-shan Yeung
- Thomas McGrath
- Venkatesh Kulkarni
- William J. Kennedy
- Angela Jackson
- Arnold Genthe / John Kuo Wei Tchen
- Colleen J. McElroy
- Gary Soto
- Peter Irons
- Keiho Soga / Taisanboku Mori / Sojin Takei / Muin Ozaki
- Louise Erdrich
- Maureen Owen
- May Sarton
- Robert Edward Duncan
- Ron Jones
- Sandra Cisneros
- Sonia Sanchez
- Julia Vinograd
- William Oandasan
- Anna Lee Walters
- Cherríe Moraga / Gloria E. Anzaldúa
- Helen Barolini
- Jeff Hannusch
- Linda Hogan
- Miguel Algarín
- Natasha Borovsky
- Raymond Federman
- Susan Howe
- Terence Winch
- Toshio Mori
- Ai
- Ana Castillo
- Cyn Zarco
- Daniel McGuire
- Dorothy Bryant
- Etheridge Knight
- Gary Giddins
- Harvey Pekar
- James Welch
- John Wieners
- Juan Felipe Herrera
- Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum
- Michael Mayo
- Septima Poinsette Clark / Cynthia Stokes Brown
- Terry McMillan
- Allison Blakely
- Charles Olson
- Daisy Bates
- David Halberstam
- Edward Sanders
- Gerald Vizenor
- Jimmy Santiago Baca
- Kesho Y. Scott / Cherry Muhanji / Egyirba High
- Marlon K. Hom
- Benjamin Hoff
- Ronald Sukenick
- Salvatore La Puma
- Toni Morrison
- Wing Tek Lum / Tek Lum Lum
- Adrienne Kennedy
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
- Daniela Gioseffi
- Elizabeth Woody
- Hualing Nieh
- Itabari Njeri
- James M. Freeman
- John C. Walter / J. Raymond Jones
- John Norton
- José Emilio González
- Sergei Kan
- Lloyd A. Thompson
- Martin Bernal
- Michelle T. Clinton / Sesshu Foster
- Miles Davis
- Paula Gunn Allen
- Shirley Geok-lin Lim / Mayumi Tsutakawa / Margarita Donnelly
- Alejandro Murguía
- bell hooks
- Bruce Wright
- Charley Trujillo
- D. H. Melhem
- Deborah Keenan
- Jessica Hagedorn
- John Edgar Wideman
- Joy Harjo
- Karen Tei Yamashita
- Lucia Berlin
- Mary Crow Dog
- Meridel Le Sueur
- Mill Hunk Herald Collective
- Nora Marks Dauenhauer / Richard Dauenhauer
- R. Baxter Miller
- Thomas Centolella
- A'Lelia Perry Bundles
- Art Spiegelman
- Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- Donna J. Haraway
- Fritjof Capra
- José Antonio Burciaga
- Keith Gilyard
- Lucy Thompson
- Norma Field
- Peter Bacho
- Peter Kalifornsky
- Raymond Andrews
- Sandra Scofield
- Sheila Hamanaka
- Stephen R. Fox
- Verlyn Klinkenborg
- William B. Branch / Amiri Baraka / August Wilson
- Asake Bomani / Belvie Rooks
- Christopher Mogil / Peter Woodrow
- Cornel West
- Denise Giardina
- Diane Glancy
- Eugene B. Redmond
- Francisco X. Alarcón
- Gerald Graff
- Jack Beatty
- Leroy V. Quintana
- Katherine Peter
- Nelson George
- Ninotchka Rosca
- Giose Rimanelli
- Eric Drooker
- Graciela Limón
- Gregory J. Reed
- Janet Campbell Hale
- Jill Nelson
- Lawson Fusao Inada
- Nicole Blackman
- Paul Gilroy
- Ronald Takaki
- Rose L. Glickman
- Tino Villanueva
- Virginia L. Kroll
- Abraham Rodriguez
- Herb Boyd / Robert L. Allen
- Denise Chavez
- John Egerton
- John Ross
- Thomas Avena
- Linda Raymond
- Li-Young Lee
- Marianna De Marco Torgovnick
- Marnie Mueller
- Peter Quinn
- Sandra Martz
- Gordon Henry Jr.
- Tricia Rose
- Agate Nesaule
- Arthur Sze
- Chang-Rae Lee
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- E.J. Miller Laino
- Glenn C. Loury
- James W. Loewen
- Joe Sacco / Edward Said
- Kimiko Hahn
- Maria Espinosa
- Robert Viscusi
- Sherman Alexie
- Ron Sakolsky / Fred Weihan Ho
- Stephanie Cowell
- William H. Gass
- Alurista
- Derrick Bell
- Dorothy Barresi
- Guillermo Gómez-Peña
- Louis Owens
- Martín Espada
- Montserrat Fontes
- Noel Ignatiev
- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
- Sunaina Maira
- Thulani Davis
- Tom De Haven
- William M. Banks
- Brenda Knight
- Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
- Angela Y. Davis
- Brenda Marie Osbey
- Don DeLillo
- Jim Barnes
- John A. Williams
- Nancy Rawles
- Nora Okja Keller
- Sandra Benitez
- Scott DeVeaux
- Thomas Lynch
- Alice McDermott
- Anna Linzer
- Brian Ward
- Chiori Santiago
- E. Donald Two-Rivers
- Edwidge Danticat
- Judith Roche / Meg McHutchison
- Gioia Timpanelli
- Gloria Naylor
- James D. Houston
- Jerry Lipka / Gerald V. Mohatt / Ciulistet Group
- Trey Ellis
- Josip Novakovich
- Lauro Flores
- Luís Alberto Urrea
- Nelson George
- Speer Morgan
- Gary Gach
- Chiori Santiago / Judith Lowry