# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ntozake-shange
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:47:31.864Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ntozake-shange"
name: "Ntozake Shange"
slug: "ntozake-shange"
description: "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."
tagline: "African American writer and performance artist (1948-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ntozake_Shange%2C_Reid_Lecture%2C_Women_Issues_Luncheon%2C_Women's_Center%2C_November_1978.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-10-18"
deathDate: "2018-10-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             11.06408443361661
  historical:           17.64986533333333
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "NtozakeShange1"
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    handle:    "nm0788110"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump