To Be Young, Gifted and Black by Lorraine Hansberry

To Be Young, Gifted and Black

Lorraine Hansberry with Robert Nemiroff (Contributor)

271 pages first pub 1969 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir

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To Be Young, Gifted and Black is a special kind of autobiography, in a very special voice. Both the story and the voice belong to a young woman from Chicago who moved to New York, won fame with her first play, A Raisin in the Sun—and went on to ne...

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