To Be Young, Gifted and Black

by Lorraine Hansberry

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A work which aspires to fill an autobiographical gap, but which makes no reference to the fact that Hansberry left her husband Robert Nemiroff to live as a gay woman. Understandable perhaps, given the time the book was published and the fact that Nemiroff edited it, but a fairly serious omission nonetheless.

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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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