Alice Childress

Alice Childress (October 12, 1916 – August 14, 1994) was an American playwright, actor, and author, acknowledged as the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades. Childress described her writing 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.

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