On Monday, Tananarive Due was officially fêted as the author of the 2024 Chautauqua Prize-winning book, The Reformatory: A Novel with a reading and ceremony in the Hall of Philosophy. Chosen from more than 330 nominations in this Prize cycle, The Reformatory is a historical fiction/horror novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows the story of Robbie Stephens Jr. as he is sent to the Gracetown School for Boys, a segregated reformatory.
