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Lorraine Hansberry

Born

in Chicago, Illinois, The United States

May 19, 1930

Died

January 12, 1965

Genre

Theater, Memoir

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Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was an American playwright and writer. She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best-known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of black Americans in Chicago living under racial segregation. The title of the play was taken from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" At the age of 29, she won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award – making her the first African-American dramatist, the fifth woman, and the youngest playwright to do so. Hansberry's family had struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant in the 1940 U.S. Supreme Court case Hansberry v. ...more

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Lorraine Hansberry’s books

Average rating: 3.87 · 119,414 ratings · 6,894 reviews · 51 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Raisin in the Sun 3.85 avg rating — 112,849 ratings — published 1959 — 147 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography by Lorraine Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff (Adapted by), James Baldwin (Introduction) 4.42 avg rating — 2,837 ratings — published 1969 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Raisin in the Sun / The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window by Lorraine Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff (Introduction) 3.86 avg rating — 1,115 ratings — published 1966 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay by Lorraine Hansberry, Spike Lee (Commentary), Margaret B. Wilkerson (Introduction) 3.80 avg rating — 922 ratings — published 1992 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window 3.68 avg rating — 746 ratings — published 1965 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers? by Lorraine Hansberry, Jewell Handy Gresham Nemiroff (Foreword), Margaret B. Wilkerson (Introduction) 4.24 avg rating — 522 ratings — published 1972 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Raisin in the Sun 4.22 avg rating — 156 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for Equality 4.68 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1964 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Use are Flowers? 3.89 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1969	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lorraine Hansberry Audio Collection: Raisin in the Sun, To be Young, Gifted and Black and Lorraine Hansberry Speaks Out 4.55 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

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“Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

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“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

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March 2020 New School Group Read

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie, 1937, 214 pages

112 votes, 31.6%

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, 1937, 219 pages

74 votes, 20.9%

White Fang by Jack London, 1906, 252 pages

64 votes, 18.1%

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, 1959, 160 pages

31 votes, 8.8%

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr., 1959, 334 pages

27 votes, 7.6%

The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati, 1940, 198 pages

26 votes, 7.3%

Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively, 1987, 224 pages

20 votes, 5.6%

354 total votes

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