Lorraine Hansberry
(1930 - 1965)
(Full name Lorraine Vivian Hansberry) American playwright and essayist.
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Hansberry, Lorraine (1930-1965)
A black American playwright who produced only two plays before her death from cancer at 34, Lorraine Hansberry nonetheless made a tremendous contribution to the America...
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Lorraine Hansberry is an African American writer who achieved a number of important firsts during her short life; she was the first black woman to write a play that was produced on Broadway as well as...
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Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (1930-1965) was an important American writer and a major figure on Broadway. Although her reputation grew with the posthumous publication of a range of works, she remained be...
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Lorraine Hansberry gained prominence as the first black among the handful of American women playwrights to have a Broadway success, A Raisin in the Sun (1959). Too often pigeonholed because of her rac...
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Although her life was brutally curtailed by cancer at only thirty-four, Lorraine Hansberry's contribution to Afro-American culture was considerable, much richer and more varied than most people realiz...
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Biography EssayAlthough her life was brutally curtailed by cancer at only thirty-four, Lorraine Hansberry's contribution to Afro-American culture was considerable, much richer and more varied than mos...
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Hansberry, Lorraine
Hansberry, Lorraine (1930-1965)
Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry
Lorraine (Vivian) Hansberry
