{"product_id":"to-be-young-gifted-and-black-a-memoir-with-an-introduction-by-james-baldwin-paperback","title":"To Be Young, Gifted and Black: A Memoir with an Introduction by James Baldwin - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLorraine Hansberry\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAssembled from plays, essays, letters, drawings, and photographs, this memoir records the passionate engagement and spectacular accomplishment of the playwright of \u003ci\u003eA Raisin in the Sun.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt follows Lorraine Hansberry from her childhood in Chicago (where her family encountered vicious resistance when it moved into a white neighborhood), through her arrival in New York, where the triumph of \u003ci\u003eA Raisin in the Sun \u003c\/i\u003emade her famous virtually overnight, to her death at the tragically early age of thirty-four. Above all, Hansberry's autobiography rings with the voice of its creator: a black woman who could be angry, loving, bitter, touchingly funny, and defiantly proud.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her first play, the now-classic A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry introduced the lives of ordinary African Americans into our national theatrical repertory. Now, Hansberry tells her own life story in an autobiography that rings with the voice of its creator. \"Brilliantly alive.\"--The New York Times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLorraine Hansberry\u003c\/b\u003e, at twenty-nine, became the youngest American, the fifth woman, and the first black playwright to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for the Best Play of the Year. Her \u003ci\u003eA Raisin in the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e has since been published and produced in some 30 countries, while her film adaptation was nominated by the New York critics for the Best Screenplay and received a Cannes Film Festival Award. At thirty-four, during the run of her second play, \u003ci\u003eThe Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window\u003c\/i\u003e, Lorraine Hansberry died of cancer. In the years since her death, her stature has continued to grow. \u003ci\u003eTo Be Young, Gifted and Black\u003c\/i\u003e, a dramatic portrait of the playwright in her own words, was the longest-running Off-Broadway drama of 1969, and has been recorded, filmed, and published in expanded book form, and has toured an unprecedented forty states and two hundred colleges. In 1986, following the stage production of the 25th anniversary of \u003ci\u003eA Raisin in the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e by the Roundabout Theatre in New York City, the play was widely acclaimed as in the foremost ranks of American classics. In 1990, the PBS \u003ci\u003eAmerican Playhouse\u003c\/i\u003e TV adaptation of the 25th-anniversary version had one of the highest viewing audiences in PBS history. \u003ci\u003eLes Blancs\u003c\/i\u003e, her last play--posthumously performed on Broadway and recently in prominent regional theaters--has been hailed by a number of critics as her best.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 7.96 x 5.18 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 03, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987461505325,"sku":"9780679764151","price":21.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/d09IaVo0eTVVZGVOVjF1RGFoVW5vZz09.webp?v=1776178845","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/to-be-young-gifted-and-black-a-memoir-with-an-introduction-by-james-baldwin-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}