![]() But Shange was most famous for her play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf (1975) which won an Obie Award and received Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award nominations. Martin’s Press, 1978) Natural Disasters and Other Festive Occasions (Heirs, 1977) and Melissa & Smith (Bookslinger, 1976). Martin’s Press, 1983) Three Pieces (1981), which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nappy Edges (St. Martin’s Press, 1987) From Okra to Greens (Coffee House Press, 1984) A Daughter’s Geography (St. She published many books of poetry including Ridin’ the Moon in Texas: Word Paintings (St. Together with her generation poets friends Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Toni Cade Bambara, she achieved a recognized place in US literature for African American authors for the first time in the 1970s. She is also recognized as the founding poet of the Nuyorican Poets Café. Se has received several awards for her feminist-influenced works such as the play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, and in 1981 she received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for poetry for Three Pieces. As a self-proclaimed black feminist, she has addressed issues relating to race and feminism in much of her work. Williams, was an American poet, playwright, dancer, actress, musician and director. About Ntozake Shange Ntozake Shange (October 18, 1948, Trenton, New Jersey - October 27, 2018, Bowie, Maryland), pseudonym of Paulette L. ![]()
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