PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide An Ongoing Online Project Paul P. Reuben Chapter 8: American Drama - Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) Page Links: | Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Theory and the Younger Family in Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun | Selected Bibliography | Study Questions | MLA Style Citation of this Web Page | Site Links: | Chap. 8: Index | ...

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z by birthday from the calendar. Credits and feedback Lorraine Hansberry (1930 - 1965) American playwright and painter, whose A RAISIN IN THE SUN (1959) was the first drama by a black woman to be produced on Broadway. It also won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award as the best play of the year.

LORRAINE VIVIAN HANSBERRY. Lorraine Hansberry was born, May 19, 1930, in Chicago, Ill., the daughter of Carl Augustus Hansberry and Nannie Perry.

Lorraine Hansberry 1930-1965. American playwright and painter