To Be Young, Gifted and Black -- Lorraine Hansberry

Assembled from plays, essays, letters, drawings, and photographs, this memoir records the passionate engagement and spectacular accomplishment of the playwright of <i>A Raisin in the Sun.</i> <p/>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 <i>A Raisin in the Sun </i>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.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Lorraine Hansberry<br><b>Publisher:</b> Vintage<br><b>Published:</b> 01/03/1996<br><b>Pages:</b> 304<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.70lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.96h x 5.18w x 0.62d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780679764151<br><b>Age Range:</b> 18-UP<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Lorraine Hansberry</b>, at twenty-nine, became the youngest American, the fifth woman, and the first black playwright to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for the Best Play of the Year. Her <i>A Raisin in the Sun</i> has since been published and produced in some 30 countries, while her film adaptation was nominated by the New York critics for the Best Screenplay and received a Cannes Film Festival Award. At thirty-four, during the run of her second play, <i>The Sign in Sidney Brustein'