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.
In 1978, she joined the Miami Herald, and then later accepted a position at the Los Angeles Times.
In 1992, she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
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.
Her work has appeared in Harper's Magazine.
Awards 1990 American Book Award for Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone
Works
Books
The Secret Life of Fred Astaire
Book chapters
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