Ntozake Shange, best known for "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf," died at the age of 70, according to her family Shange was 70. Ntozake Shange passed away on October 27, 2018 at the age of 70.

Playwright, poet and author Ntozake Shange, whose most acclaimed theater piece is the 1975 Tony Award-nominated play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is … Playwright Ntozake Shange, who wrote the 1975 Tony-nominated play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf,” died Saturday in Bowie, Maryland, according t… When African American writer Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf: a choreopoem appeared on the theater scene in New York City in 1975, it achieved immense popularity.Ten years later, it was still being produced in various theaters throughout the United States.
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Ntozake Shange was born Paulette Williams into an upper middle-class African American family.

According to The Star Tribune, Shange had suffered multiple strokes in recent years, but her health was improving.

She was 70.

DuBois were regular guests in the Williams home. Ntozake Shange, author of the groundbreaking 1976 play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” has died at the age of 70. Ntozake Shange, black feminist poet and playwright of ‘For Colored Girls,’ dies at 70 According to The Star Tribune, Shange h… Her father was an Air Force surgeon and her mother a psychiatric social worker.