Dec 30, 2009

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

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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.”

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

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The Work

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