Itabari Njeri

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Itabari Njeri
Occupation
  • Journalist
  • novelist
  • memoirist
NationalityAmerican
EducationBoston University
Columbia University (MS)
Harvard University
Notable awardsAmerican Book Award (1990)

Itabari Njeri is an American

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. .
  • The last plantation: color, conflict, and identity : reflections of a new world Black. Houghton Mifflin. 1997. .
  • Shadowed Feats: Untold Story. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2006. .
  • The Secret Life of Fred Astaire

Anthologies

References