Ntozake Shange
American playwright and poet
Died when: 70 years 9 days (840 months)Star Sign: Libra
Ntozake Shange (/??nto?'z??ki '????ge?/ EN-toh-ZAH-kee SHAHNG-gay;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 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.She lived in Brooklyn, New York.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.
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