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To Be Young, Gifted and Black: A Memoir with an Introduction by James Baldwin
Contributor(s): Hansberry, Lorraine (Author)

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ISBN: 0679764151 ISBN-13: 9780679764151
Publisher: Vintage

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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 1996
Annotation: In her first play, the now-classic A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry introduced the lives of ordinary African Americans into our national theatrical repertory. Now, Hansberry tells her own life story in an autobiography that rings with the voice of its creator. "Brilliantly alive."--The New York Times.

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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General
- Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Biography & Autobiography | Women

Dewey: B

LCCN: 96119999

Age Level: 18-UP

Grade Level: 13-UP

Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.18" W x 7.96" L (0.70 lbs) 304 pages

Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Sex & Gender - Feminine

Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product

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Publisher Description:
Assembled from plays, essays, letters, drawings, and photographs, this memoir records the passionate engagement and spectacular accomplishment of the playwright of A Raisin in the Sun.

It follows Lorraine Hansberry from her childhood in Chicago (where her family encountered vicious resistance when it moved into a white neighborhood), through her arrival in New York, where the triumph of A Raisin in the Sun made her famous virtually overnight, to her death at the tragically early age of thirty-four. Above all, Hansberry's autobiography rings with the voice of its creator: a black woman who could be angry, loving, bitter, touchingly funny, and defiantly proud.

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