To Be Young, Gifted, and Black | To Be Young, Gifted, and Black

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...

To Be Young, Gifted, and Black | To Be Young, Gifted, and Black

At a glance:

Form and Content

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