Lorraine Hansberry (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
The youngest playwright and the first black writer ever to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, Lorraine Hansberry is one of the most important American authors, an artist whose work influenced a whole generation of black writers and opened the way for the publication and production of their work. The play that brought her to prominence, A Raisin in the Sun, won the award during a theatrical season that also launched new plays by acknowledged masters Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill.
Born Lorraine Vivian Hansberry, the playwright was the youngest of the...
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