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Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange is an American playwright and poet. As a black feminist, she has tackled Black's race and power issues for the majority of her work. She is known for her Obie-winning play, For Girls of Color which was once considered suicide / When the Rainbow was Enuf. She has also written novels including Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, Liliane and Betsey Brown, about an African-American girl who is running away from her home. Among Shange's honors and awards are scholarships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Foundation, the American Poetry Association's Shelley Memorial, and the Stroller Prize. In April 2016, Barnard College announced that it had acquired the Shange Archives. Shange lives in Brooklyn, New York. Shange has one daughter, Savannah Shange. She has been married twice: to saxophonist David Murray and artist McArthur Binion, Savannah's father, both marriages ending in divorce.
BornPaulette Linda Williams, October 18, 1948, Trenton, New Jersey, U.S.
DiedOctober 27, 2018, Bowie, Maryland, U.S.
EducationBarnard College, Columbia University (BA), University of Southern California (MA)
OccupationPlaywright, author, poet
Known forfor colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
RelativesSavannah Shange (daughter) Ifa Bayeza (sister) Bisa Williams (sister) Paul T. Williams, Jr. (brother)

About Ntozake Shange

Poet Ntozake Shange was born on October 18, 1948 in Trenton, New Jersey, United States (She dies at the age of 70, on October 27, 2018).

African-American poet, author, and playwright best known for For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enough, a 1975 lyrical play. Betsey Brown, a novel she wrote in 1985, is another of her works.

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Ntozake Shange before becoming famous

Ntozake Shange was born in the Zodiac sign Libra (The Scales), and 1948 is also the year of Rat (鼠) in the Chinese Zodiac.

She went to the University of Southern California and Barnard College.

Achievement of Ntozake Shange

For her verse play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enough, she won the prestigious Obie Award.

Ntozake Shange's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

She had a brief marriage in her late teens, and her subsequent divorce led to an attempt on her life.

Ntozake Shange on Social Media

Ntozake Shange's news on her Twitter: @NtozakeShange1.

Ntozake Shange Collabed with

Mother Courage and Her Children, a drama by Playwright Bertolt Brecht, was adapted by her in 1980.

Ntozake Shange Income & Net worth

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Ntozake Shange Height and Weight

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Latest information about Ntozake Shange updated on March 20 2023.