Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange (  ;Ntozake Shange Biography, FilmReference.com; accessed October 27, 2018. October 18, 1948 – October 27, 2018) was an American playwright and poet.Lester, N: "At the Heart of Shange's: An Interview", Black American Literature Forum, 24(4): 717–730. She wrote about race and Black power in much of her work.

Shange is best known for the Obie Award-winning play for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf. Her other works were Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo (1982), Liliane (1994), and  Betsey Brown (1985).

Shange died in her sleep October 27, 2018, aged 70, in an assisted living facility in Bowie, Maryland from stroke-related complications.Kennedy, Mark (October 27, 2018), "Author Ntozake Shange of 'For Colored Girls' fame has died", ABC News. 

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