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Childress, Alice
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(born Oct. 12, 1916, Charleston, S.C., U.S.—died Aug. 14, 1994, New York, N.Y.) American playwright, novelist, and actress, known for realistic stories that posited the enduring optimism of black Americans. Childress grew up in Harlem, New York...
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Childress, Alice
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(born Oct. 12, 1916, Charleston, S.C., U.S.—died Aug. 14, 1994, New York, N.Y.) U.S. playwright, novelist, and actress. She grew up in Harlem and studied drama with the American Negro Theatre, where she wrote, directed, and starred in her first...
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Alice Childress Information
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Alice Childress (born October 12, 1920 in Charleston, South Carolina, died August 14, 1994) was an American playwright and author. Childress was born in South Carolina, but at age nine, after her parents separated, she moved to Harlem where she lived...


Quotations
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Alice Childress Quotes
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Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever...


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The Independent - London
Obituary: Alice Childress
08/30/1994: 788 words, approx. 3 pages
Alice Childress, playwright, novelist, actress: born Charleston, South Carolina 12 October 1916; married Nathan Woodard; died New York City 14 August 1994. IN NOVEMBER 1955 a satirical comedy which poked fun at white liberals and scorned racial stereotyping opened at the Greenwich Mews...
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The Journal of African American History
Telling the truth: Alice Childress as theorist and playwright.
01/01/2002: 8,075 words, approx. 27 pages
In Their Place on the Stage: Black Women Playwrights in America (1988), Elizabeth Brown-Guillory declared that "Alice Childress is the only black woman in America whose plays have been written, produced, and published over a period of four decades." (1) Childress wrote seventeen...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Interview by Alice Childress with Roberta Maguire
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In the following interview, which took place in 1993, Childress discusses her attraction to and experience in the theater, as well as the feminist and racial issues explored in her work.
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Critical Essay by Trudier Harris
6,745 words, approx. 23 pages
Harris is an educator. In the following essay, she discusses Mildred, Childress's narrator in Like One of the Family, and her position in oral and written African-American literature.
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Critical Essay by Catherine Wiley
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In the following essay, Wiley examines feminist and racial perspectives on Childress's Wedding Band.
 


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