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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf( )
Author: Shange, Ntozake
Read by: Newton, Thandie
ISBN:978-1-4418-8008-6
Publication Date:Jan 2011
Publisher:Brilliance Publishing, Inc.
Book Format:CD-Audio
List Price:USD $9.99
Book Description:

From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it is to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975 when it was praised by The New Yorker for...
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Detailed Subjects: Drama / American / General
Poetry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.5 x 5.5 x 0.63 Inches
Book Weight:0.52 Pounds
Author Biography
Shange, Ntozake (Author)
Ntozake Shange was born Paulette Linda Williams in Trenton, New Jersey on October 18, 1948. She received a bachelor's degree from Barnard College in 1970 and a master's degree in American studies from the University of Southern California in 1973. She adopted her African name while in graduate school.

She wrote 15 plays, 19 collections of poetry, six novels, five children's books, and three essay collections. Her choreopoem, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf, opened on Broadway in 1976 and received an Obie Award. She also received an Obie in 1981 for her adaptation of Bertold Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children. Her trilogy, Three Pieces, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry in 1981. She died on October 27, 2018 at the age of 70.

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