Lorraine Hansberry
Playwright whose A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a Black woman on Broadway.
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Born 1930 in Chicago. Hansberry was 29 when Raisin won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award — the youngest American and first Black writer to do so. Died at 34.
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
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