Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965)
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American playwright Lorraine Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930 in Chicago. After attending the University of Wisconsin for two years and then studying painting in Chicago and Mexico, Hansberry moved to New York in 1950. There she held a number of odd jobs to make ends meet while trying to mehr anzeigen establish her writing career. Hansberry wrote her first play A Raisin in the Sun in 1959. The first drama by a black woman to be produced on Broadway. A Raisin in the Sun tells the story of a working-class black family in Chicago. The production won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, and in 1961, the film version, starring Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee, received a special award at the Cannes Film Festival. Hansberry's next play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, a drama set in Greenwich Village, had a short run on Broadway in 1964. Hansberry's promising career was tragically cut short by her premature death on January 12, 1965. She was 34 years old. The plays To Be Young, Gifted and Black and Les Blancs were adapted from Hansberry's early writings by her ex-husband Robert Nemiroff. Both plays were produced off-Broadway, in 1969 and 1970 respectively. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Hansberry, Lorraine Vivian
- Geburtstag
- 1930-05-19
- Todestag
- 1965-01-12
- Begräbnisort
- Asbury United Methodist Church Cemetery, Croton-on-Hudson, New York, USA
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Sterbeort
- New York, New York, USA
- Todesursache
- pancreatic cancer
- Ausbildung
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
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- playwright
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- Robert Nemiroff (former spouse, 1953-1962)
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- New York Drama Critics' Circle Award (1959)
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame (2010)
American Theater Hall of Fame (2013)
National Women's Hall of Fame (2017)
Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame (1992)
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