![]() Martin’s Press, 1978) Natural Disasters and Other Festive Occasions (Heirs, 1977) and Melissa & Smith (Bookslinger, 1976).Īmong her plays are Daddy Says (1989) Spell #7 (1985) From Okra to Greens/A Different Kinda Love Story (1983) A Photograph: Lovers-in-Motion (1981) and the renowned for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (1977), which won an Obie Award and received Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award nominations. 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. ![]() Her many books of poetry include Ridin’ the Moon in Texas: Word Paintings (St. She received an MA in American studies from USC in 1973. It was during this time that she took the name “Ntozake” (“she who comes into her own things”) “Shange” (“she who walks like a lion”) from the Zulu dialect Xhosa. ![]() She earned a BA in American studies from Barnard College in 1970 and then left New York to pursue graduate studies at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. Poet, performance artist, playwright, and novelist Ntozake Shange was born Paulette Williams on October 18, 1948, in Trenton, New Jersey. ![]()
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