Itabari Njeri

Itabari Njeri
Occupation	Journalist novelist memoirist
Education	Boston University Columbia University (MS) Harvard University
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, 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

1. Victoria Boynton, ed. (2005). Encyclopedia of Women's Autobiography: K-Z. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN   978-0-313-32739-1.
2. "Njeri, Itabari (Harper's Magazine)". Archived from the original on 2011-03-06.