num_pages: 304
description: Assembled from plays, essays, letters, drawings, and photographs, this memoir records the passionate engagement and spectacular accomplishment of the playwright of A Raisin in the Sun.It follows Lorraine Hansberry from her childhood in Chicago (where her family encountered vicious resistance when it moved into a white neighborhood), through her arrival in New York, where the triumph of A Raisin in the Sun made her famous virtually overnight, to her death at the tragically early age of thirty-four. Above all, Hansberry's autobiography rings with the voice of its a black woman who could be angry, loving, bitter, touchingly funny, and defiantly proud.
language: English
title: To Be Young, Gifted and Black
titlecomplete: To Be Young, Gifted and Black
genres: Classics, Autobiography, Plays, Race, African American, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Womens
ratings_count: 2755
publisher: Vintage