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A Short Biography of Lorraine Vivian Hansberry

Author Name:

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry

Born As:

Other Names:

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry

Born:

19 May 1930

Died:

12 Jan 1965




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Writer and dramatist                          
Selected Works:

A Raisin in the Sun - 1959
A Raisin in the Sun - film, screenplay - 1961
A Raisin in the Sun - TV film, produced - 2008
On Summer - Essay - 19??  - Essay
The Drinking Gourd - 1960
The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for Equality - 1964
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window - 1965, also ran for 110 performances on Broadway
To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words - 1969, the longest-running Off-Broadway play of the 1968-1969 season.
Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays / by Lorraine Hansberry Edited by Robert Nemiroff - 1994                          
Mother Nannie Louise Perry
Father Carl Augustus Hansberry
Ex-Husband Robert Nemiroff                          
Youngest American playwright and only the 5th woman to receive the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, at the age of 29.

Scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Lorraine Hansberry on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans - 2002.

A Raisin in the Sun and A Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window are staples of high school English classrooms.                          
Best known work, A Raisin in the Sun, was inspired by her family's legal battle against racially segregated housing laws in the Washington Park Subdivision of the South Side of Chicago during her childhood.