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To Be Young, Gifted and Black: A Memoir with an Introduction by James Baldwin

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To Be Young, Gifted and Black: A Memoir with an Introduction by James Baldwin - Hansberry, Lorraine
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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 ...

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To Be Young, Gifted and Black: A Memoir with an Introduction by James Baldwin 1996, Vintage, New York

ISBN-13: 9780679764151

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