To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography by Lorraine Hansberry

To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography

Lorraine Hansberry with James Baldwin (Contributor), Robert Nemiroff (Contributor)

272 pages first pub 1969 (editions) user-added

nonfiction memoir reflective slow-paced

Description

In her first play, the now-classic A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry introduced the lives of ordinary African Americans into our national theatrical repertory. Now, Hansberry tells her own life story in an autobiography that rings with the voice of i...

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