To Be Young, Gifted, and Black (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Lorraine Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff
- First Published: 1969
- Genres: Nonfiction, Speeches, Biography
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Family or family life, Journalism or journalists, Racism, Authors or writers, Autobiography, Writing, Cancer, Letter writing, Drama or dramatists
- Locales: New York, Chicago, IL, Wisconsin
The Work
After Lorraine Hansberry’s untimely death, Robert Nemiroff, her former husband and literary executor, edited versions of her writings and adapted them for the stage under the title To Be Young, Gifted, and Black. He also expanded that work into an informal autobiography of the same title. In Nemiroff’s words, the work is “biography and autobiography, part fact, part fiction, an act of re-creation utilizing first person materials as well as, inferentially, autobiographical projections of herself in her characters.”
“Never before, in the entire...
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