Description
Assembled from plays, essays, letters, drawings, and photographs, this memoir records the passionate engagement and spectacular accomplishment of the playwright of A Raisin in the Sun. 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 A Raisin in the Sun 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.
Details
Author: |
Lorraine Hansberry |
ISBN 10: |
0679764151 |
Pages: |
304 |
Publisher: |
Vintage |
Publication Date: |
January 3, 1996 |
Binding: |
Paperback |
Weight: |
0.70lbs |
