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Lorraine Hansberry : the life behind A raisin in the sun
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"Written when she was just twenty-eight, Lorraine Hansberry's landmark A Raisin in the Sun is listed by the National Theatre as one of the hundred most significant works of the twentieth century. Hansberry was the first Black woman to have a play performed on Broadway, and the first Black and youngest American playwright to win a New York Critics' Circle Award. Charles J. Shields's authoritative biography of one of the twentieth century's most admired playwrights examines the parts of Lorraine Hansberry'slife that have escaped public knowledge: the influence of her upper-class background, her fight for peace and nuclear disarmament, the reason why she embraced Communism during the Cold War, and her dependence on her white husband-her best friend, critic,and promoter. Many of the identity issues about class, sexuality, and race that she struggled with are relevant and urgent today. This dramatic telling of a passionate life-a very American life through self-reinvention-uses previously unpublished interviews with close friends in politics and theater, privately held correspondence, and deep research to reconcile old mysteries and raise new questions about a life not fully described until now"--
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| North Castle Public Library | B HANSBERRY (Text) Biography |
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| Ossining Public Library | B HANSBERRY (Text) Biography |
31021153431043 |
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| Pound Ridge Library District | BIO HANSBERRY (Text) Biography |
31026151047626 |
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| Rye Free Reading Room | LIVES - HANSBERRY (Text) Nonfiction |
31028153144237 |
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| Town of Pelham Public Library | B HANSBERRY (Text) Biography |
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31033152269696 |
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| White Plains Public Library | BIOGRAPHY HANSBERRY, LORRAINE (Text) Nonfiction |
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| Yonkers Grinton I. Will Library | B HANSBERRY (Text) Biography |
31035162540396 |
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