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- NAME: Alice Childress
- OCCUPATION: Author, Playwright
- BIRTH DATE: October 12, 1916
- DEATH DATE: August 14, 1994
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Charleston, South Carolina
- PLACE OF DEATH: New York, New York
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Alice Childress is an African-American playwright associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She is also the author of several young adult novels.
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Alice Childress was born on October 12, 1916 in Charleston, South Carolina but grew up grew up in Harlem. She acted with the American Negro Theatre in the 1940s and wrote a number of plays about the African-American experience, including Trouble in Mind. Childress was also a successful writer of children's literature, including A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich. She died in 1994.
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