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Jan 03, 1996 | ISBN 9780679764151 Buy
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Jan 03, 1996 | ISBN 9780679764151
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.
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) electrified the theatrical world with her first play, A Raisin in the Sun, which won the New York Critics Circle Award for the 1958-59 season. Before her tragic death from cancer at the age of 34, she had… More about Lorraine Hansberry
“Suffused with the light that was Lorraine . . . one hears that inflection of voice, the exact timbre of the laugh.” –James Baldwin“An extraordinary achievement. . . . . Brilliantly alive.” —The New York Times“Inspired and inspiring. . . . A work of glowing beauty.” —San Francisco Examiner“I advise anyone who is interested in the human condition, black or white, to read it.” —Newsday
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