Tag: writer

Ntozake Shange · portraits

Anthony Barboza (b. 1944) ~ Ntozake Shange – Poet, 1977. The Black Borders | src Keith de Lellis gallery

Shange was born in New Jersey in 1948 and named Paulette Williams. Her father, Paul T. Williams, was a surgeon, and her mother, Eloise, was an educator and psychiatric social worker. […] In 1971, she changed her name from Paulette Williams to Ntozake Shange, which is Zulu for “she who comes with her own things and walks like a lion” […] / quoted from The New Yorker

Sylvia Plachy ~ Ntozake Shange in 1976 | src The New Yorker

Shange was perhaps most famous for her play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf (1975). A unique blend of poetry, music, dance and drama called a “choreopoem”. […] [The Poetry Foundation]

Jack Mitchell ~ Ntozake Shange, 1996 | src NY Times

Hands of Paul Valéry, ca. 1936

Laure Albin Guillot :: Hands of Paul Valery, ca. 1936. Fresson print. | src Art Institute Chicago (AIC)

Boris Pasternak and Korney Chukovsky, 1934

Boris Ignatovich :: Boris Pasternak and Korney Chukovsky, Moscow, 1934. Gelatin silver print mounted on board.| src Nailya Alexander Gallery
“The writers Boris Pasternak and Korney Chukovsky attend the First Inaugural Soviet Writer’s Congress. Established two years prior, the Writer’s Union abolished all independent literary organizations in the USSR. It also granted the two writers neighboring homes in the town of Peredelniko where Pasternak wrote Doctor Zhivago.” quoted from source