![Alice Childress wearing a dark outfit and a pearl necklace.](/sites/default/files/2021-05/Alice%20Childress%20640x480.png)
Alice Childress, author. New York Public Library Digital Collections.
(1912-1994) Born in Charleston, SC Alice Childress was a novelist, playwright, and actress. She is known as the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades.
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