NTOZAKE SHANGE
Name: Ntozake Shange
Born: October 18, 1948
Ntozake Shange (born October 18, 1948) is
an African American playwright, performance artist, and writer who is best-known
for her Obie Award winning play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
When the Rainbow Is Enuf.
She also wrote Betsey Brown, a novel about an African American girl who runs
away from home. Among her honors and awards are fellowships from the Guggenheim
Foundation and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, and a Pushcart Prize.
Shange lives in Philadelphia.
Name: Ntozake Shange
Born: October 18, 1948
Ntozake Shange (born October 18, 1948) is
an African American playwright, performance artist, and writer who is best-known
for her Obie Award winning play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
When the Rainbow Is Enuf.
She also wrote Betsey Brown, a novel about an African American girl who runs
away from home. Among her honors and awards are fellowships from the Guggenheim
Foundation and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, and a Pushcart Prize.
Shange lives in Philadelphia.