Ntozake Shange
American playwright and poet (1948–2018)
Biography
Ntozake Shange ( EN-toh-ZAH-kee SHAHNG-Ê; October 18, 1948 – October 27, 2018) 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 (1975). She also penned novels including Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo (1982), Liliane (1994), and Betsey Brown (1985), about an African-American girl who runs 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.
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Career highlights
Notable works
- for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
- Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
- Betsey Brown
- Nappy edges
- Liliane
Family
- Spouse(s)
- David Murray
Awards & honours (5)
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Langston Hughes Medal
- Shelley Memorial Award
- Otto Rene Castillo Award for Political Theater
- star on Playwrights' Sidewalk
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