Alice Childress, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Alice Childress

American playwright and author

Date of Birth: 12-Oct-1916

Place of Birth: Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Date of Death: 14-Aug-1994

Profession: screenwriter, actor, writer, playwright, director, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Alice Childress

  • Alice Childress (October 12, 1916 – August 14, 1994) was an American novelist, playwright, and actress, acknowledged as "the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades." Childress described her work as trying to portray the have-nots in a have society, saying: "My writing attempts to interpret the 'ordinary' because they are not ordinary.
  • Each human is uniquely different.
  • Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.
  • We are uncommonly and marvellously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne." Childress also became involved in social causes, and formed an off-Broadway union for actors.Alice Childress's paper archive is held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, NY.

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