Tag: writer

Ntozake Shange ยท 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 โ€œshe who comes with her own things and walks like a lionโ€ […] / 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 โ€œchoreopoemโ€. […] [The Poetry Foundation]

Jack Mitchell ~ Ntozake Shange, 1996 | src NY Times

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 Writerโ€™s Congress. Established two years prior, the Writerโ€™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 wroteย Doctor Zhivago.” quoted from source