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(1930-1965) Playwright, writer. Lorraine Hansberry was born in Chicago, Illinois, and came to New York City in 1950. She worked for the paper “Freedom.” Her plays, which include “A Raisin in the Sun,” were said to usher in the black theater movement of the 1960s.

Full Name

Lorraine Hansberry

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1930

BIRTH

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was born in Chicago, Illinois, on May 19, 1930.

1950

RESIDENCE

Hansberry came to New York City in 1950. She studied at the New School Of Social Research and lived at times in Greenwich Village and in Harlem.

1959

LITWORK

A Raisin In The Sun
Random House
0394406885 / 978-0394406886
Play; the winner of the 1959 New York Drama Critics Circle Award.

1963

LITWORK

Les Blancs


Play.

1964

LITWORK

The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window
Random House, 1965.

Play. Published by Random House in 1965.

1964

LITWORK

The Movement: Documentary Of A Struggle For Equality
Simon & Schuster.

Nonfiction.

1965

DEATH

Lorraine Hansberry died in New York City on January 12, 1965.

1965

INTERMENT

Lorraine Hansberry was interred at Bethel Cemetery, Croton-on-Hudson, New York.

1966

LITWORK

Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun and The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window
New American Library

Plays.

1969

LITWORK

To Be Young, Gifted And Black: Lorraine Hansberry In Her Own Words
Prentice-Hall
0139230033 / 978-0139230035
Nonfiction.

1983

LITWORK

Lorraine Hansberry: The Collected Last Plays (Les Blancs, The Drinking Gourd, What Use Are Flowers?)
New American Library.

Edited by Robert Nemiroff.

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