Itabari Njeri
Itabari Njeri | |
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| Education | Boston University (BSc) Columbia University (MS) Harvard University (PhD) |
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| Notable awards | American Book Award (1990) |
Itabari Njeri is an American journalist, novelist, and memoirist.
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
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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References
- 1 2 3 4 Freeman Paden, Frances (2005). "NJERI, ITABARI (?– )". In Boynton, Victoria; Malin, Jo (eds.). Encyclopedia of Women's Autobiography: Volume 2 K-Z. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 435–437. ISBN 978-0-313-32739-1.
- ↑ "Itabari Njeri". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2026-05-27.
- ↑ "Itabari Njeri". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved 2026-05-27.
Categories:
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century American memoirists
- Writers from Brooklyn
- Novelists from New York City
- People from Harlem
- Writers from Manhattan
- Boston University alumni
- Columbia University alumni
- Washington University in St. Louis faculty
- Harvard University alumni
- Living people
- American women memoirists
- American women journalists
- 21st-century American women novelists
- American Book Award winners
- Novelists from Missouri