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Legal name: Nemiroff, Robert B.
Birthdate: 1929-10-29
Date of death: 1991-07-18
Gender: male
Occupations: book editor
publishing executive
songwriter
music publisher
Broadway producer
literary executor (show all 7)
playwright
Awards and honors: Tony Award (Producer, Raisin, 1974)
Relationships: Hansberry, Lorraine (ex-spouse)
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Places of residence: New York, New York, USA
Croton-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Place of death: New York, New York, USA
Associated Place (for map): New York, USA

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To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words by Lorraine Hansberry

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.

Mar 8, 2012