

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. She was acknowledged as “the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades.”Ĭhildress 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. Alice Childress, October 12, 1916 – August 14, 1994, was a Harlem novelist, playwright, and actress.
