To Be Young, Gifted and Black: A Memoir with an Introduction by James Baldwin -- Lorraine Hansberry, Paperback
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.
Author: Lorraine Hansberry
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1/3/1996
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.7 lbs
Size: 7.96" H x 5.18" L x 0.62" W
ISBN: 9780679764151
