To Be Young, Gifted, and Black (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Lorraine Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff
- First Published: 1969
- Time of Work: 1930–1965
- Setting: Chicago, Wisconsin, and New York
- Principal Characters: Lorraine Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff, James Baldwin
- 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
Form and Content
With To Be Young, Gifted, and Black, Robert Nemiroff has selected and adapted excerpts from Lorraine Hansberry’s writings to “relate the artist to the person … to enable the words she left to tell her story without intrusion.” The book’s content explains her life chronologically, but the writings are not necessarily in chronological order.
A foreword by Nemiroff presents insights into Hansberry’s character and assesses her place in American literature. The postscript recounts the development of this biographical work and the subsequent...
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