Lorraine Hansberry

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title: Lorraine Hansberry
text: Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was an American 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 in Chicago living under racial segregation. The title of the play was taken from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" At the age of 29, she won the New York Drama Critics' Circle
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description: African-American playwright and author (1930–1965)
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date created: 2002-05-20T12:49:50Z
date modified: 2024-09-03T22:47:13Z
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