$5.00 Black Writers PHOTOGRAPHS BY JILL KREMENTZ TONI MORRISON, New York, N.Y., February 13, 1974 Toni Morrison (b. 1931) creates richly textured prose that mines her experience as an African American woman in a predominantly white society. For her entire body of work-from her first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), through Jazz (1992)-she was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature. © Jill Krementz POMEGRANATE
$5.00 Vintage Postcard Black Writers PHOTOGRAPHS BY JILL KREMENTZ NTOZAKE SHANGE, New York, N.Y., June 16, 1976 Ntozake Shange, playwright, poet, and novelist, was born Paulette Linda Williams in 1948. She took her African name—meaning "she who walks like a lion" —to help fight "a war of cultural and esthetic aggression." Among her award-winning works are For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow Is Enuf (1975), Sassafrass (1976), Nappy Edges (1978), and Liliane 1994).
