Lorraine hansberry

Writer and playwright Lorraine Hansberry poses for a portrait in her apartment at 337 Bleecker Street in April, 1959 in New York City, New York.

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Playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry wrote 'A Raisin in the Sun' and was the first Black playwright and the youngest American to win a New York Critics’ Circle award.

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Lillian Ross talks with Lorraine Hansberry about how she became a playwright.

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he Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust (LHLT) is the official and authorized organization representing Lorraine Hansberry. Our mission is to steward the legacy of the celebrated playwright and to ensure that her works and her commitment to art, social change, and human evolution continue to inspire.

he Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust (LHLT) is the official and authorized organization representing Lorraine Hansberry. Our mission is to steward the legacy of the celebrated playwright and to ensure that her works and her commitment to art, social change, and human evolution continue to inspire.

Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) was an American writer, best known for the play, “A Raisin in the Sun” (1957). It was the first play by a black woman to appear on Broadway. James Baldwin…

Hansberry "did not assume she knew all the answers, but she did want to see a less violent and more revolutionary world brought into existence. Hansberry never survived to see that world, but Perry’s recovery of her vision has made it all the more possible."