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To Be Young, Gifted and Black

by Lorraine Hansberry

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Assembled from plays, essays, letters, drawings, and photographs, this memoir records the passionate engagement and spectacular accomplishment of the playwright of A Raisin in the Sun.It follows Lorraine Hansberry from her childhood in Chicago (where... Read more
Assembled from plays, essays, letters, drawings, and photographs, this memoir records the passionate engagement and spectacular accomplishment of the playwright of A Raisin in the Sun.It follows Lorraine Hansberry from her childhood in Chicago (where her family encountered vicious resistance when it moved into a white neighborhood), through her arrival in New York, where the triumph of A Raisin in the Sun made her famous virtually overnight, to her death at the tragically early age of thirty-four. Above all, Hansberry's autobiography rings with the voice of its creator: a black woman who could be angry, loving, bitter, touchingly funny, and defiantly proud. Less

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File size6.85 X 4.21 X 0.59 in
Print pages272
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
Publication date January 4, 2011
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780679764151
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Lorraine Hansberry
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Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – Jan 12, 1965) was a playwright and writer. She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best known work, the p...

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