Ntozake Shange | |
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Born | Paulette Linda Williams October 18, 1948 Trenton, New Jersey, U.S. |
Died | October 27, 2018 Bowie, Maryland, U.S. | (aged 70)
Education | Columbia University (BA) University of Southern California (MA) |
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Known for | for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (1975) |
Relatives | Ifa Bayeza (sister) Bisa Williams (sister) |
Website | officialntozakeshange |
Ntozake Shange (/ˌɛntoʊˈzɑːki ˈʃɑːŋɡeɪ/ EN-toh-ZAH-kee SHAHNG-Ê;[1] October 18, 1948 – October 27, 2018) was an American playwright and poet.[2] As a Black feminist, she addressed issues relating to race and Black power in much of her work. She is best known for her Obie Award-winning play, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (1975). She also penned novels including Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo (1982), Liliane (1994), and Betsey Brown (1985), about an African-American girl run away from home.
Among Shange's honors and awards were fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund, a Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and a Pushcart Prize. In April 2016, Barnard College announced that it had acquired Shange's archive.[3] She lived in Brooklyn, New York.[4] Shange had one daughter, Savannah Shange. Shange was married twice: to the saxophonist David Murray and the painter McArthur Binion, Savannah's father, with both marriages ending in divorce.[5]
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