Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun

NOMINATED FOR THE BIOGRAPHERS INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION'S PLUTARCH AWARD AND THE KIRKUS PRIZE

The moving story of the life of the woman behind A Raisin in the Sun, the most widely anthologized, read, and performed play of the American stage, by the New York Times bestselling author of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee

Written when she was just twenty-eight, Lorraine Hansberry's landmark A Raisin in the Sun is listed by the National Theatre as one of the hundred most significant works of ...