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Lorraine Hansberry

Born

in Chicago, Illinois, The United States

May 19, 1930

Died

January 12, 1965

Genre

Theater, Memoir

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Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was an American playwright and writer. She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best-known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of black Americans in Chicago living under racial segregation. The title of the play was taken from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" At the age of 29, she won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award – making her the first African-American dramatist, the fifth woman, and the youngest playwright to do so. Hansberry's family had struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant in the 1940 U.S. Supreme Court case Hansberry v. ...more

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Lorraine Hansberry’s books

Average rating: 3.87 · 116,675 ratings · 6,674 reviews · 49 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Raisin in the Sun 3.85 avg rating — 110,334 ratings — published 1959 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography by Lorraine Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff (Adapted by), James Baldwin (Introduction) 4.42 avg rating — 2,824 ratings — published 1969 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Raisin in the Sun / The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window by Lorraine Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff (Introduction) 3.85 avg rating — 1,090 ratings — published 1966 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay by Lorraine Hansberry, Spike Lee (Commentary), Margaret B. Wilkerson (Introduction) 3.80 avg rating — 908 ratings — published 1992 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window 3.69 avg rating — 736 ratings — published 1965 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers? by Lorraine Hansberry, Jewell Handy Gresham Nemiroff (Foreword), Margaret B. Wilkerson (Introduction) 4.23 avg rating — 510 ratings — published 1972 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for Equality 4.67 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1964 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lorraine Hansberry Audio Collection: Raisin in the Sun, To be Young, Gifted and Black and Lorraine Hansberry Speaks Out 4.55 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Use are Flowers? 3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1969	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Raisin in the Sun Study Guide 4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

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“Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

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“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

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November 2015 New School Classics Group Read

1982, Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally, 429 pages

25 votes, 17.7%

1988, Matilda by Roald Dahl, 240 pages

22 votes, 15.6%

1997, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, 434 pages

16 votes, 11.3%

1930, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 267 pages

14 votes, 9.9%

1988, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, 197 pages

13 votes, 9.2%

1987, Beloved by Toni Morrison, 324 pages

11 votes, 7.8%

1932, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 233 pages

8 votes, 5.7%

1957, The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino, 217 pages

7 votes, 5.0%

1989, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, 288 pages

6 votes, 4.3%

1959, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, 160 pages

4 votes, 2.8%

1940, The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene, 222 pages

4 votes, 2.8%

1949, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 342 pages

3 votes, 2.1%

1932, The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth, 352 pages

3 votes, 2.1%

1928, Quicksand by Nella Larsen, 192 pages

2 votes, 1.4%

1939, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, 243 pages

2 votes, 1.4%

1931, The Road Back by Erich Maria Remarque, 352 pages

1 vote, 0.7%

1997, Out by Natsuo Kirino, 400 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

1974, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, 288 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

141 total votes

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