Question: Which author was born first, Lorraine Hansberry or Sandra Gulland?
Context: Lorraine Hansberry Hall (built 1973) is a residence hall at Lincoln University, named for author and playwright Lorraine Hansberry.  Since its opening, Lorraine Hansberry Hall has been used to house freshmen women.  In January 2003 the Women’s Center was opened in the basement as a wellness resource directed for female students.  The basement of Lorraine Hansberry Hall is also the location for the large laundry area for the residents. Young, Black, and Determined: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry is a 1998 book by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack.  It is a biography of the playwright and activist, Lorraine Hansberry. The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is named after the acclaimed playwright of "A Raisin in the Sun".  She wrote the play while living in Bay Area.  Since being founded in 1981, The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre has mounted productions that have included performances by Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Danny Glover and Ntozake Shange.  The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is the first African-American arts institution to be located in downtown San Francisco. Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an African-American playwright and writer. "To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in her Own Words", was written by Lorraine Hansberry, an American writer best known for her 1957 play "A Raisin in the Sun", a play that made Hansberry the first black author of a show on Broadway.  After her death in 1965, Hansberry's ex-husband and friend, songwriter and poet Robert Nemiroff, collated her unpublished writings and adapted them into a stage play that first ran from 1968 to 1969 off Broadway.  It was then converted into an equally successful autobiography with the same title. Sandra Gulland (born November 3, 1944) is an American-born Canadian novelist.  She is the author of "The Shadow Queen" and "Mistress of the Sun", novels set in the court of Louis XIV, The Sun King, and a trilogy of novels based on the life of Josephine Bonaparte: "The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B."; "Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe"; "The Last Great Dance on Earth". Carl Augustus Hansberry (April 30, 1895—March 17, 1946) was an American real estate broker, inventor and political activist.  He was also the father of award-winning playwright Lorraine Hansberry and the great-grandfather of actress Taye Hansberry. William Leo Hansberry (February 25, 1894 – November 3, 1965) was an American scholar and lecturer.  He was the older brother of real estate broker Carl Augustus Hansberry, uncle of award-winning playwright Lorraine Hansberry and great-granduncle of actress Taye Hansberry. Hansberry College Prep, formerly known as "Noble Auburn Gresham College Prep", is a public four-year charter high school located in the Auburn Gresham in Chicago, Illinois.  It is a part of the Noble Network of Charter Schools.  Hansberry College Prep opened its doors in 2012 as Noble Auburn Gresham College Prep in recognition of the neighborhood in which the school resides.  In July 2013, the campus changed its name to Hansberry College Prep in honor of Lorraine Hansberry, an African-American writer and playwright who grew up on Chicago's south side and who worked to combat racial segregation in the 1950s and 1960s.  Hansberry College Prep currently serves grades nine through twelve and will graduate its first class in 2016. Les Blancs is a play written by Lorraine Hansberry.  It debuted on Broadway on November 15, 1970 and ran until December 19 of that same year.  It debuted to heavy criticism.  It was Lorraine Hansberry’s final work and she considered it her most important, as it depicts the plights of colonialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  It is her only play that takes place in Africa, and it uses dance and music both as signifiers of black and African cultures; a concept called the Black Aesthetic.
Answer: Lorraine Vivian Hansberry