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Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an American playwright and writer. [1] . 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.
Jul 9, 2024 · Lorraine Hansberry (born May 19, 1930, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died January 12, 1965, New York, New York) was an American playwright whose A Raisin in the Sun (1959) was the first drama by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway.
Aug 16, 2023 · 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.
In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry made history as the first African American woman to have a show produced on Broadway—A Raisin in the Sun. As a playwright, feminist, and racial justice activist, Hansberry never shied away from tough topics during her short and extraordinary life.
Jul 8, 2019 · Lorraine Hansberry (May 19, 1930–January 12, 1965) was a playwright, essayist, and civil rights activist. She is best known for writing "A Raisin in the Sun," the first play by a Black woman produced on Broadway. Her civil rights work and writing career were cut short by her death from pancreatic cancer at age 34.
Apr 14, 2021 · The playwright Lorraine Hansberry in 1959. David Attie/Getty Images. By Parul Sehgal. April 14, 2021. The curtain rises on a dim, drab room. An alarm sounds, and a woman wakes. She tries to...
Jan 17, 2022 · Books. The Many Visions of Lorraine Hansberry. She’s been canonized as a hero of both mainstream literature and radical politics. Who was she really? By Blair McClendon. January 17, 2022. With...
Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965) was a playwright, writer, and activist. Hansberry was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1930. She was the daughter of a real estate entrepreneur, Carl Hansberry, and schoolteacher, Nannie Hansberry, as well as the niece of Pan-Africanist scholar and college professor Leo Hansberry. Her own family’s landmark court ...
Lorraine Hansberry was a playwright, journalist and activist. Her play A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a Black woman produced on Broadway and has been revived on Broadway in 2004 and 2014.
Jan 11, 2018 · May 19, 1930 — Lorraine Vivian Hansberry is born to Carl Augustus Hansberry, Sr. and Nannie Louise Hansberry in Chicago, Illinois. 1937 — Carl moves his family to a home in the...
