![]() ![]() ![]() She took odd jobs to pay for herself, including domestic worker, photo retoucher, assistant machinist, saleslady, and insurance agent. She became involved in theater immediately after her high school and she did not attend college. Alice attended public school in New York for her middle school and attended the Wadleigh High School for her high school education, but had to drop out once her grandmother died. Though her grandmother had no formal education, she encouraged Alice to pursue her talents in reading and writing. Early lifeĬhildress was born in Charleston, South Carolina, but at the age of nine, after her parents separated, she moved to Harlem where she lived with her grandmother on 118th Street, between Lenox Avenue and Fifth Avenue. Alice Childress (Octo– August 14, 1994) was an American playwright, actor, and author. ![]()
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