Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange ˌɛntoʊˈzɑːki ˈʃɑːŋɡeɪ ENtohZAHkee SHAHNGÊ 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 Awardwinning 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 AfricanAmerican girl run away from home Among Shanges honors and awards were fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and Lila Wallace Readers 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 Shanges archive Description above from the Wikipedia article Ntozake Shange licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia