Entry Personal Name

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• control field: 307772

003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER

• control field: DLC

005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION

• control field: 20241016153440.0

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• fixed length control field: 800310n| azannaabn |a aaa

010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER

• LC control number: n 50001478

035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER

• System control number: (OCoLC)oca00037171

040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE

• Original cataloging agency: DLC
• Language of cataloging: eng
• Description conventions: rda
• Transcribing agency: DLC
• Modifying agency: DLC
• Modifying agency: OCoLC
• Modifying agency: DHU-MS
• Modifying agency: IEN
• Modifying agency: DLC
• Modifying agency: OCoLC
• Modifying agency: NN
• Modifying agency: OCoLC

046 ## - SPECIAL CODED DATES

• Birth date: 1948-10-18
• Death date: 2018-10-27
• Source of date scheme: edtf

053 #0 - LC CLASSIFICATION NUMBER

• Classification number element--single number or beginning number of span: PS3569.H3324

100 1# - HEADING--PERSONAL NAME

• Personal name: Shange, Ntozake

368 ## - OTHER ATTRIBUTES OF PERSON OR CORPORATE BODY

• Other designation: African American authors
• Source: lcdgt

370 ## - ASSOCIATED PLACE

• Place of birth: Trenton (N.J.)
• Place of death: Bowie (Md.)
• Associated country: United States
• Source of term: naf

373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP

• Associated group: Barnard College
• Associated group: University of Southern California
• Associated group: Sonoma State College
• Associated group: University of California (System). University Extension
• Source of term: naf

374 ## - OCCUPATION

• Occupation: Fiction writer

374 ## - OCCUPATION

• Occupation: Poets
• Occupation: Dramatists
• Occupation: Entertainers
• Source of term: lcsh

375 ## - GENDER

• Gender: female

377 ## - ASSOCIATED LANGUAGE

• Language code: eng

400 1# - SEE FROM TRACING--PERSONAL NAME

• Personal name: Williams, Paulette L.

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: For colored girls who have considered suicide, c1975.

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: From okra to greens, a different love story, 1984:
• Information found: CIP t.p. (Ntozake Shange) data sheet (b. 1948)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: Selected black Amer., African and Caribbean authors, 1985
• Information found: (Shangé, Ntozake [Paulette L. Williams]; dancer, teacher, playwright; b. Trenton, N.J., 10-18-1948)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: Contemp. authors, v. 85-88
• Information found: (Shange, Ntozake, 1948- ; original name Paulette Williams; name changed, 1971)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: African American National Biography, accessed September 14, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:
• Information found: (Shange, Ntozake; Paulette Williams; fiction writer, dramatist, poet, essayist, playwright, performer; born 18 Oct. 1948 in Trenton, New Jersey, United States; BA in American Studies, Barnard College (1970); took a Zulu name, Ntozake, meaning "she who comes with her own things," (Band Shange, meaning "who walks like a lion" (1971); earned MA in American Studies from the University of Southern California (1973); taught at Sonoma State College and at the University of California Extension; moved to New York City (1975); nominated for Tony, Grammy, and Emmy awards; won the 1977 Obie for Best Original Play)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: New York times WWW site, viewed Oct. 29, 2018
• Information found: (in obituary published Oct. 28: Ntozake Shange; b. Paulette Williams, Oct. 18, 1948, Trenton; adopted a Zulu name as a young woman; d. Saturday [Oct. 27, 2018], Bowie, Md., aged 70; spoken-word artist who morphed into a playwright with her canonical play For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf)