When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever."

"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 the twentieth century. Hansberry was the first Black woman to have a play performed on Broadway, and the first Black and youngest American playwright to win a New York Critics' Circle Award. Charles J. Shields's authoritative biography of one of the twentieth century's most admired...

The prose and dramatic writings of Lorraine Hansberry provide autobiographical information about the author's life, thoughts, feelings, and career.

Offers an in-depth examination of gender as presented in Lorraine Hansberry's A raisin in the sun, as well as contemporary perspectives on this issue.

Examines the life and works of twentieth-century African-American playwright Lorraine Hansberry, who wrote "A Raisin in the Sun"; includes a chronology and a selected bibliography.

Provides the Cliffs Notes on Lorraine Vivian Hansberry's classic novel, "A Raisin in the Sun;" and includes biographical information on the author, critical commentaries and essays, character analysis, questions, and research projects.

Contains a performance of Lorraine Hansberry's play A raisin in the sun; a performance of the play To be young, gifted and Black, which is a dramatized portrait of Hansberry arranged from her writings; and seven of Hansberry's interviews and speeches ranging in topic "from integration to backlash to the greatness and limitations of African-American leadership"--Container