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Here are Lorraine Hansberry's last three plays-Les Blancs, The Drinking Gourd, and What Use Are Flowers?-representing the capstone of her achievement. Includes a new preface by Jewell Gresham Nemiroff and a revised introduction by Margaret B. Wilkerson.

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was a playwright and writer. She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was a 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 living under racial segregation in Chicago.

Lorraine Hansberry, at twenty-nine, became the youngest American, the fifth woman, and the first black playwright to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for the Best Play of the Year. Her A Raisin in the Sun has since been published and produced in some 30 countries, while her film adaptation was nominated by the New York critics for the Best Screenplay and received a Cannes Film Festival Award. In the years since her death, her stature has continued to grow

Here are Lorraine Hansberry’s last three plays–Les Blancs, The Drinking Gourd, and What Use Are Flowers?–representing the capstone of her achievement. Wilkerson

Here are Lorraine Hansberry’s last three plays–Les Blancs, The Drinking Gourd, and What Use Are Flowers?–representing the capstone of her achievement. Also by Lorraine Hansberry. See all books by Lorraine Hansberry. About Lorraine Hansberry. Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) electrified the theatrical world with her first play, A Raisin in the Sun, which won the New York Critics Circle Award for the 1958-59 season.

Raisin," a musical based on A Raisin in the Sun, opened in New York in 1973, winning the Tony Award for Best Musical, with the book by Nemiroff, music by Judd Woldin, and lyrics by Robert Britten. یشتر از Lorraine Hansberry. A Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry