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Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965)

Author of A Raisin in the Sun

Includes the names: Lorraine Hansberry, Hansberry Lorraaaine, lorraine hansberry's, Lorraine Hansberry, Illustrated by Cover Art

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Works by Lorraine Hansberry

A Raisin in the Sun (Author) 3,725 copies, 60 reviews
To Be Young, Gifted and Black 245 copies, 1 review
A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window 202 copies, 1 review
A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay 154 copies, 1 review
Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are… 78 copies, 1 review
A Raisin In The Sun: And Related Readings 56 copies
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window 32 copies
The movement; documentary of a struggle for equality 18 copies
Three Negro Plays (Contributor) 10 copies
Lorraine Hansberry Audio Collection CD: Raisin in the Sun, To be Young,… 8 copies
A matter of colour: Documentary of the struggle for racial equality in the… 5 copies
Lorraine Hansberry Collection: A Raisin in the Sun / To Be Young, Gifted… 3 copies, 1 review
To be young, gifted, & Black: Lorraine Hansberry in her words 1 copy
A raisin in the sun [and] The sign in Sidney Brustein's window : The 101… 1 copy

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (2004-11-29) 1 copy

Lorraine Hansberry: art of thunder, vision of light; in Freedomways,… 1 copy

Stücke. Eine Rosine in der Sonne - Das Zeichen am Fenster - Les… 1 copy

Drinking Gourd, The 1 copy

What Use Are Flowers? 1 copy

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Also by Lorraine Hansberry

Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought (Contributor) 167 copies, 1 review
Masterpieces of the Drama (Contributor) 153 copies, 2 reviews
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by… (Contributor) 110 copies
A Raisin in the Sun [1961 film] (Original play) 75 copies
Honey, Hush!: An Anthology of African American Women's Humor (Contributor) 56 copies
Four Contemporary American Plays (Contributor) 40 copies, 1 review
Best American Plays: 6th Series, 1963-1967 (Contributor) 18 copies
Monologues Women: 50 Speeches from the Contemporary Theatre (v. 1) (Contributor) 16 copies
A Raisin in the Sun (Globe Adapted Classic) (Orinial Author) 2 copies
Voices of Man: Let Us Be Men (The Voices of Man Literature Series) (Contributor) 1 copy
African American History Collection, CD 2. The Negro in American Culture (Contributor) 1 copy

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Hansberry, Lorraine Vivian

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Chicago, Illinois, USA

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New York, New York, USA

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University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Robert Nemiroff (ex-husband)

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