Lorraine Hansberry Summary

Lorraine Hansberry (1930 - 1965) (Full name Lorraine Vivian Hansberry) American playwright and essayist. Lorraine Hansberry: Introduction Lorraine Hansberry: Principal Works Lorraine Hansberry: Primar... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

Critical Essay by Gerald Weales To Be Young, Gifted and Black, as everyone knows by now, is a patchwork play pieced together by Robert Nemiroff from the produced and unproduced works, the letters, th... Read more

Critical Essay by Brendan Gill So much has happened in Africa since 1961 [when Lorraine Hansberry began the writing of "Les Blancs"] that the play, laid in a Schweitzer-like medical mis... Read more

Critical Essay by Harold Clurman I confess to have been more impressed by Lorraine Hansberry's Les Blancs … than I expected to be; more, indeed, than most of the professional theatre-ta... Read more

Critical Essay by Clive Barnes ["The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window"] is a play about idealism, liberalism and not selling-out, and it is written in something of the declamator... Read more

Critical Essay by Bertie J. Powell [The Drinking Gourd] portrays American plantation slavery which … characterizes a phase of the black experience. The title was taken from a spiritual, ... Read more

Critical Essay by John Cutts In its transference from stage to screen, Lorraine Hansberry's deeply moving play about an impoverished but indestructable Negro family, has, alas, lost more than ... Read more

Critical Essay by Arthur France The people who surround Walter Lee are all trying to get him to adjust to the conditions of life for a Negro in a white man's world. All except Beneatha. Beneat... Read more