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January 12, 1965 (34 years old)
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Taurus
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Celebrities born on May 19
Born in 1930
Born in Chicago, Illinois
Taurus named Lorraine
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Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was a playwright and writer. She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of Black Americans living under racial segregation in Chicago. The title of the play was taken from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" At the age of 29, she won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award — making her the first African-American dramatist, the fifth woman, and the youngest playwright to do so. Hansberry's family had struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant in the 1940 US Supreme Court case Hansberry v. Lee. After she moved to New York City, Hansberry worked at the Pan-Africanist newspaper Freedom, where she dealt with other intellectuals such as Paul Robeson and W. E. B. Du Bois.
BornLorraine Vivian Hansberry, May 19, 1930, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
DiedJanuary 12, 1965, New York City, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison, The New School
OccupationPlaywright, writer, stage director

About Lorraine Hansberry

Playwright Lorraine Hansberry was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States on May 19, 1930. She dies at the age of 34, on January 12, 1965.

For being the first African-American to write a Broadway play, he is remembered. In 1959, A Raisin in the Sun had its Broadway debut.

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Lorraine Hansberry before becoming famous

Lorraine Hansberry was born in the Zodiac sign Taurus (The Bull), and 1930 is also the year of Horse (馬) in the Chinese Zodiac.

She worked for Henry A. Wallace's presidential campaign when she was about 18 years old, and then spent a year in Mexico studying art at the University of Guadalajara.

Achievement of Lorraine Hansberry

In 2013, she was honored by the American Theatre Hall of Fame.

Lorraine Hansberry's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

From 1953 to 1962, she was married to Robert Nemiroff.

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Rapper P. Diddy played Walter Lee in a Broadway version of A Raisin in the Sun in 2004.

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Lorraine Hansberry Income & Net worth

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