To Be Young, Gifted and Black: A Memoir with an Introduction by James Baldwin

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 creator: a black woman who could be angry, loving, bitter, touchingly funny, and defiantly proud.
ASIN: 0679764151
VSKU: BVV.0679764151.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Hansberry, Lorraine
Binding: Paperback
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Condition Notes: Former library book with little sign of wear or use.