Artist Bio

Question 1

He left the church and renounced his Christianity

Answer 1

James Baldwin

Question 2

She was Born in Memphis

Answer 2

Katori Hall

Question 3

Born in OKC, March 1st 194

Answer 3

Ralph Ellison

Question 4

“Theater’s poet of black America” according to his obituary in the New York Times

Answer 4

August Wilson

Question 5

Frontier spirit fostered in him a sense of human potential that he considered the very essence of American democracy

Answer 5

Ralph Ellison.

Question 6

Father died when he was three

Answer 6

Ralph Ellison

Question 7

Versatile musician, joined Tuskegee Inst. on a state scholarship in 1933

Answer 7

Ralph Ellison

Question 8

Although he was deeply attracted to Marxism, it was his doubting the ideology that in part allowed him to write his celebrated novel

Answer 8

Ralph Ellison

Question 9

His novel one the 1953 National Book Award

Answer 9

Ralph Ellison

Question 10

He died of pancreatic cancer in 1994

Answer 10

Ralph Ellison

Question 11

Play premiered at Theatre503, London in June 2009

Answer 11

Katori Hall

Question 12

It opened on Broadway’s Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre is Oct. 2011

Answer 12

Katori Hall

Question 13

Play won the Oliver Award for Best New Play

Answer 13

Katori Hall

Question 14

He was born on Aug. 2nd 1924 in Harlem

Answer 14

James Baldwin

Question 15

Began his literary apprenticeship at 12 when he wrote a short story about the Spanish revolution in a church newspaper

Answer 15

James Baldwin

Question 16

First novel, Go Tell it on The Mountain was published in 1958

Answer 16

James Baldwin

Question 17

After nearly a decade he moved back to the US to join the civil rights struggle in 1957

Answer 17

James Baldwin

Question 18

Died in 1987 in St. Paul de Vence

Answer 18

James Baldwin