Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind a Raisin in the Sun Shields Charles J.
Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind a Raisin in the Sun Shields Charles J. The moving story of the life of the woman behind A Raisin in the Sun, the most widely anthologized, read, and performed play…
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Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind a Raisin in the Sun Shields Charles J.
The moving story of the life of the woman behind A Raisin in the Sun, the most widely anthologized, read, and performed play of the American stage, by the New York Times bestselling author of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper LeeWritten when she was just twenty-eight, Lorraine Hansberry's landmark A Raisin in the Sun is listed by the National Theatre as one of the hundred most significant works of the twentieth century. Shields's authoritative biography of one of the twentieth century's most admired playwrights examines the parts of Lorraine Hansberry's life that have escaped public knowledge: the influence of her upper-class background, her fight for peace and Hansberry was the first Black woman to have a play performed on Broadway, and the first Black and youngest American playwright to win a New York Critics' Circle Award.Charles J.