Columbia University (BA) University of Southern California (MA)
Occupations
Playwright
author
poet
Known for
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (1975)
Relatives
Ifa Bayeza (sister) Bisa Williams (sister)
Website
officialntozakeshange.com
Ntozake Shange (/ˌɛntoʊˈzɑːkiˈʃɑːŋɡeɪ/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]
^Ntozake Shange Biography, FilmReference.com. Retrieved October 27, 2018.
^Lester, Neal A., "At the Heart of Shange's Feminism: An Interview", Black American Literature Forum, Women Writers Issue (Winter 1990), 24(4): 717–730.
^Gans, Andrew (April 18, 2016). "Barnard College Acquires Archives of Ntozake Shange". Playbill. Retrieved April 19, 2016.
^Lee, Felicia R. (September 17, 2010), "A Writer's Struggles, on and Off the Page", The New York Times. Retrieved September 30, 2010.
^Collins-Hughes, Laura (October 28, 2018). "Ntozake Shange, Who Wrote 'For Colored Girls,' Is Dead at 70". The New York Times. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
NtozakeShange (/ˌɛntoʊˈzɑːki ˈʃɑːŋɡeɪ/ EN-toh-ZAH-kee SHAHNG-Ê; October 18, 1948 – October 27, 2018) was an American playwright and poet. As a Black feminist...
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nappy edges is a collection of poetry and prose poetry written by NtozakeShange and first published by St. Martin's Press in 1978. The poems, which vary...
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from its founding to the present day. Among the collections are the NtozakeShange papers. The Barnard Zine Library is a unit of the Barnard Library and...
Night, Chekhov's Cherry Orchard, Brecht's Mother Courage (adapted by NtozakeShange), and Shakespeare's Coriolanus. Foster searched for roles in which she...
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senior at Macalester College. Gurira performed in a production of the NtozakeShange play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow...
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activist Annie Leonard (1986), activist and director, The Story of Stuff NtozakeShange (1970), Obie Award-winning playwright, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered...
(novel), a 2010 novel by Aprilynne Pike Spell No. 7, a 1979 choreopoem by NtozakeShange Enharmonic spelling, how a musical note is indicated Spells, a choral...
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