Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange 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 Award-winning 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 African-American girl who runs away from home.
Books
Rotten English: A Literary Anthology
2007
ISBN 9781417784684
Not Just for the Money
1998
ISBN 9781858988450
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction
1990
ISBN 9780140116977
Mothers Through the Eyes of Women Writers: A Barnard College Collection
2001
ISBN 9781609256470
The Love Space Demands
1991
ISBN 9780312076276
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
1975
ISBN 9780915288137
Nappy edges
1978
ISBN 9780312559052
Three pieces
1981
ISBN 9780312802806
Spell #7
1981
ISBN 9780573616273
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
1982
ISBN 9780312699727
A daughter's geography
1983
ISBN 9780312183424
From okra to greens
1984
ISBN 9780573621734
Betsey Brown
1985
ISBN 9780312541231
Ridin' the moon in Texas
1987
ISBN 9780312889296
Liliane
1994
ISBN 9780312135591
The Beacon Best of 1999
1999
ISBN 9780807062210
Ellington Was Not a Street
2002
ISBN 9798855122459
Daddy says
2003
ISBN 9780689830815
Coretta Scott
2009
ISBN 9780061253645
Some Sing, Some Cry
2010
ISBN 9781441880062
lost in language and sound
2011
ISBN 9780792784685
Wild Beauty
2017
ISBN 9781501169953