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Ntozake Shange

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Death6 years ago
Born Trenton
New Jersey
United States
DiedBowie
Maryland
United States
Job Playwright
Poet
Author
Screenwriter
Novelist
Choreographer
Education University of Southern California
Barnard College
Trenton Central High School
Movies/Shows Whitewash
An Evening with Diana Ross (The Big Event)
For Colored Girls
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
Obie Award for Special Citations
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Broadway Musical
Obie Award for Distinguished Productions
Date of birth October 18,1948
Zodiac sign Libra
Spouse McArthur Binion
Children Savannah Thulani Eloisa
Parents Eloise Williams
Paul T. Williams
Date of died October 27,2018
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Date of Upd.
ID481750

Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
Betsey Brown
Some Sing, Some Cry
Liliane
Ellington was not a street
Nappy Edges
Coretta Scott
Lost in language & sound
I live in music
A daughter's geography
If I Can Cook\/ You Know God Can
The Sweet Breath of Life
We troubled the waters
Three pieces
Float Like a Butterfly
Daddy says
Freedom's A- Callin Me
The love space demands
Ridin' the moon in Texas
From okra to greens
Sassafrass
See No Evil: Prefaces, Essays & Accounts, 1976-1983
A Photograph: Lovers in Motion
Whitewash
BEACON BEST OF 1999
Plays, one
Love's Fire: Seven New Plays Inspired By Seven Shakespearean Sonnets
Selected from Contemporary American Plays
Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems
I Am an Old Woman
Stories for African American History Month
Beneath the Necessity of Talking
Plays by American Women 1970 to 2010: A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White; Fefu and Her Friends; Spell #7; The Heidi Chronicles; In the Blood; Intimate Apparel; The Aliens
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Ntozake Shange was an American playwright and poet. 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.

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