.tif.jpg) First-edition cover of The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window by Lorraine Hansberry Image by Jacket design not credited, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed Public domain |
Vi VelascoLorraine Hansberry Lorraine Hansberry Black American playwright and author (1930–1965) Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an American playwright and writer.[1] She was the first Black American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Hansberry's 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 age 29, she won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award – making Hansberry the first Black American dramatist, the fifth woman, and the youngest playwright… (Source: Wikipedia)
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