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Ntozake Shange was recently honored with a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.Born Paulette Williams, the writer lived on nearby Windemere Place until she was 13 years old.
Her experiences in St. Louis infuse her work, and she won an Obie Award for her play “For Colored Girls who have considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf,” now considered a standard of the American theatre.
The Broadway hit was adapted into a major motion picture in 2010.
A prodigious author of poetry, as well as plays, her work combines technical innovation and lyric exuberance with a passionate feminine voice writing from an African-American perspective. –from the plaque on Delmar.
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Ntozake Shange Walk of Fame star presentation.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, November–December 2012.
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