Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965)
Autor(a) de A Raisin in the Sun
About the Author
American playwright Lorraine Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930 in Chicago. After attending the University of Wisconsin for two years and then studying painting in Chicago and Mexico, Hansberry moved to New York in 1950. There she held a number of odd jobs to make ends meet while trying to mostrar mais establish her writing career. Hansberry wrote her first play A Raisin in the Sun in 1959. The first drama by a black woman to be produced on Broadway. A Raisin in the Sun tells the story of a working-class black family in Chicago. The production won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, and in 1961, the film version, starring Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee, received a special award at the Cannes Film Festival. Hansberry's next play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, a drama set in Greenwich Village, had a short run on Broadway in 1964. Hansberry's promising career was tragically cut short by her premature death on January 12, 1965. She was 34 years old. The plays To Be Young, Gifted and Black and Les Blancs were adapted from Hansberry's early writings by her ex-husband Robert Nemiroff. Both plays were produced off-Broadway, in 1969 and 1970 respectively. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras por Lorraine Hansberry
Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers? (1972) 115 exemplares
Lorraine Hansberry Audio Collection CD: Raisin in the Sun, To be Young, Gifted and Black and Lorraine Hansberry Speaks… (2001) 12 exemplares
What Use Are Flowers? 3 exemplares
the drinking gourd 2 exemplares
Associated Works
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought (1995) — Contribuidor — 234 exemplares
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Contribuidor — 159 exemplares
Monologues Women: 50 Speeches from the Contemporary Theatre (v. 1) (1976) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
African American History Collection, CD 2. The Negro in American Culture — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Hansberry, Lorraine Vivian
- Data de nascimento
- 1930-05-19
- Data de falecimento
- 1965-01-12
- Localização do túmulo
- Asbury United Methodist Church Cemetery, Croton-on-Hudson, New York, USA
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Local de falecimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa da morte
- pancreatic cancer
- Educação
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
The New School - Ocupações
- playwright
- Relações
- Robert Nemiroff (former spouse, 1953-1962)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- New York Drama Critics' Circle Award (1959)
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame (2010)
American Theater Hall of Fame (2013)
National Women's Hall of Fame (2017)
Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame (1992)
Membros
Críticas
Listas
Five star books (1)
Overdue Podcast (1)
Ambleside Books (1)
Female Author (1)
Zora Canon (2)
Black Authors (1)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 25
- Also by
- 15
- Membros
- 6,708
- Popularidade
- #3,651
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 87
- ISBN
- 108
- Línguas
- 3
- Marcado como favorito
- 6