Lorraine Hansberry
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Born January 1, 1930
Died January 1, 1965 (35 years old)
Chicago, United States
Also known as: Lorraine 1930-1965 Hansberry, L. Hansberry
13 books
3.5 (20)
560 readers
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Newest First
A Raisin in the Sun
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This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production which opened in 1959. Set on Chicago's South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis and matriarch Lena, called Mama. When her deceased husband's insurance money comes through, Mama dreams of moving to a new home and a better neighborhood in Chicago. Walter Lee, a chauffeur, has other plans, however: buying a liquor store and being his own man. Beneatha dreams of medical school. The tensions and prejudice they face form this seminal American drama. Sacrifice, trust and love among the Younger family and their heroic struggle to retain dignity in a harsh and changing world is a searing and timeless document of hope and inspiration. Winner of the NY Drama Critic's Award as Best Play of the Year, it has been hailed as a "pivotal play in the history of the American Black theatre." by Newsweek and "a milestone in the American Theatre." by Ebony.
Lorraine Hansberry's The sign in Sidney Brustein's window
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Play concerning a young couple, journalist and actress, living in Greenwich Village. Robert Nemiroff, Miss Hansberry's husband and co-producer of "The sign in Sidney Brustein's window" tells the story of its author and the circumstances of its production.
The Collected Last Plays
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Here are Lorraine Hansberry's last three plays—Les Blancs, The Drinking Gourd, and What Use Are Flowers?—representing the capstone of her achievement. Includes a new preface by Jewell Gresham Nemiroff and a revised introduction by Margaret B. Wilkerson.
To be young, gifted, and black
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In 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.
titties
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Hundreds of black & white photographs chronicling the civil rights movement. Captions and accompanying text by Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright. Photographers include Danny Lyon, Don Charles, Norris McNamara, Frank Dandridge and others.
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
Herman Melville, Norman Cousins, Philip Morin Freneau, O. Henry, Jim Wayne Miller, Benjamin Franklin, Vachel Lindsay, Henry James, Richard Willard Armour, Morris Bishop, Tom Wolfe, Conrad Richter, William Least Heat Moon, Ralph Ellison, Robert Anderson, Sherwood Anderson, Seattle Chief, Cotton Mather, Dorothy Parker, Louisa May Alcott, William Cullen Bryant, Eugene O'Neill, Karl Jay Shapiro, Katherine Anne Porter, Lewis, Thomas, Washington Irving, John Crowe Ransom, Paul Engle, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Margaret Walker, William Carlos Williams, Walt Whitman, Ogden Nash, Tennessee Williams, Jonathan Edwards, N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Silko, Stephen Crane, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Willa Cather, Wallace Stevens, Robert Penn Warren, Thomas Jefferson, Clarence Day, Henry David Thoreau, John Updike, Randall Jarrell, James Edwin Miller, W. H. Auden, Frederick Douglass, Paul Horgan, Isaac Asimov, Robinson Jeffers, James Thurber, Marianne Moore, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Elinor Wylie, Esther Forbes, Phillis Wheatley, Carl Sandburg, Ray Bradbury, Mark Twain, Richard Eberhart, Ambrose Bierce, James Russell Lowell, William Saroyan, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Langston Hughes, Edgar Allan Poe, Maxine Kumin, Bernard Malamud, Conrad Aiken, Bret Harte, John Greenleaf Whittier, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Denise Levertov, Amy Lowell, Carson McCullers, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sarah Kemble Knight, Adrienne Rich, Edgar Lee Masters, Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, Eudora Welty, George Washington, Henry Timrod, Archibald MacLeish, Sylvia Plath, Stephen Vincent Benét, Sinclair Lewis, James Fenimore Cooper, Sidney Lanier, Douglas Southall Freeman, Abraham Lincoln, Kurt Vonnegut, Emily Dickinson, Jean Toomer, Jacques Barzun, James Weldon Johnson, Vannevar Bush, Howard Nemerov, Claude McKay, Pearl S. Buck, Abram Joseph Ryan, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Thomas Paine, Annie Dillard, Byrd, William, Elizabeth Bishop, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, Phyllis McGinley, Irwin Shaw, Lorraine Hansberry, Sara Teasdale, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, E. E. Cummings, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mari Evans, Kate Chopin, T. S. Eliot, George Santayana, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Edith Wharton, Paul Hamilton Hayne, E. B. White, Anne Bradstreet, Louise Bogan, Gary Soto, Ezra Pound, Teresa Palomo Acosta, Thornton Wilder, Lillian Hellman, Theodore Roethke, Theodore Hornberger, Sarah Orne Jewett, Robert Frost, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Jesse Stuart, Robert Hayden, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frank C. Laubach, Don Marquis, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Richard Wilbur, Amiri Baraka, James Baldwin, Patrick F. McManus, Walter Blair, Margaret Fuller, William Stafford, William Bradford, Robert Lowell, Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer, E. J. Kahn, Francis Wright, James Masao Mitsui, James W. C. Pennington, John N. Morris, Kerry M. Wood, Lawson Fusao Inada, Mollie Dorsey Sanford, Mona Van Duyn, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Richard Wright, Robert C. Pooley, Robert E. Lee, W. L. White, William Byrd II, Chief Joseph, David McCord, David Wagoner, Edward Rowe Snow, James Wright, Leonie Adams, May Swenson, Paul Farmer, Richard Rodriguez, Sabine R. Ulibarrí, Vern Rutsala
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Selections include: ... - [Young Goodman Brown]( by Nathaniel Hawthorne ... - [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge]( by Ambrose Bierce ... - [A Pair of Silk Stockings]( by Kate Chopin - [The Cask of Amontillado]( - [Fall of the House of Usher]( - [The Glass Menagerie]( by Tennesse Williams
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level
O. Henry, Lewis Carroll, Daphne du Maurier, Toni Cade Bambara, Saki, Guy de Maupassant, Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Edith Hamilton, Nelson Mandela, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Walker, Walter De la Mare, Walt Whitman, Kōnstantinos Petrou Kabaphēs, John Keats, Sebastian Junger, Walter Dean Myers, Scott McCloud, Bill Cosby, Arthur C. Clarke, John McPhee, Isaac Asimov, Bill Gates, Richard Brautigan, William Shakespeare, James Thurber, Martin Luther King Jr., Richard Connell, Carl Sandburg, Ray Bradbury, Mark Twain, Marge Piercy, Jeffrey Kluger, Langston Hughes, Arthur Conan Doyle, Όμηρος, Edgar Allan Poe, Joan Aiken, Cynthia Rylant, Isabel Allende, Joan Didion, Rosa Parks, Ishmael Reed, Harold Courlander, Shirley Jackson, Amy Tan, Rachel Carson, Emily Dickinson, Gabriela Mistral, William Wordsworth, Tomás Rivera, George Herzog, Lorraine Hansberry, Sara Teasdale, E. E. Cummings, Horton Foote, James A. Michener, Edwin Muir, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Wisława Szymborska, T. S. Eliot, Maya Angelou, Julia Alvarez, Mitch Albom, Gary Soto, Антон Павлович Чехов, Christina Georgina Rosetti, Barry Lopez, Lady Bird Johnson, Robert Frost, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Isaac Bashevis Singer, William Stafford
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Prentice Hall literature
Pat Mora, O. Henry, Lewis Carroll, William J. Lederer, Toni Cade Bambara, Alan Axelrod, Felton, Harold W., Saki, Guy de Maupassant, Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Adam Kirsch, Neil Postman, Edith Hamilton, Nelson Mandela, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Margaret Atwood, Walt Whitman, Kōnstantinos Petrou Kabaphēs, Stanley Kunitz, Ovid, Walter Dean Myers, Scott McCloud, Bill Cosby, Arthur C. Clarke, John McPhee, Richard Brautigan, William Shakespeare, James Thurber, Henry Alford, Sandra Cisneros, Martin Luther King Jr., Richard Connell, Carl Sandburg, Ray Bradbury, Mark Twain, Langston Hughes, Arthur Conan Doyle, Όμηρος, Edgar Allan Poe, Joan Aiken, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Wayson Choy, Cynthia Rylant, Isabel Allende, Derek Walcott, Jean de Sponde, Amy Tan, Rachel Carson, Emily Dickinson, Gabriela Mistral, William Wordsworth, Oscar Wilde, Ama Ata Aidoo, Lorraine Hansberry, E. E. Cummings, Edwin Muir, Michael Frayn, Alfred Lord Tennyson, T. S. Eliot, Maya Angelou, Julia Alvarez, Gary Soto, Антон Павлович Чехов, Lady Bird Johnson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prentice-Hall, inc., Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Richard Wilbur, Isaac Bashevis Singer, William Stafford
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Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, Sojourner Truth, Simon J. Ortiz, Herman Melville, Benjamin Franklin, Alex Haley, Maxine Hong Kingston, Tom Wolfe, Sherwood Anderson, William Cullen Bryant, Eugene O'Neill, Katherine Anne Porter, Washington Irving, A. R. Ammons, William Carlos Williams, Walt Whitman, John Hersey, Tennessee Williams, Jonathan Edwards, N. Scott Momaday, Stephen Crane, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Willa Cather, Wallace Stevens, Robert Penn Warren, Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, John Updike, Abigail Adams, Randall Jarrell, W. H. Auden, Frederick Douglass, Rita Dove, James Thurber, Olaudah Equiano, Sandra Cisneros, Martin Luther King Jr., Marianne Moore, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Phillis Wheatley, Carl Sandburg, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, James Russell Lowell, Langston Hughes, Edgar Allan Poe, Bernard Malamud, Arthur Miller, Bret Harte, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, McKim, Randolph H., Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Carson McCullers, Gwendolyn Brooks, John F. Kennedy, Adrienne Rich, Joseph Bruchac, Edgar Lee Masters, Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, Eudora Welty, E. L. Doctorow, Tim O'Brien, Joyce Carol Oates, Archibald MacLeish, Sylvia Plath, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Louise Erdrich, Edward Albee, Abraham Lincoln, Amy Tan, Emily Dickinson, Jean Toomer, Anna Quindlen, James Cloyd Bowman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Claude McKay, Christopher Columbus, Washington Matthews, William Safire, Thomas Paine, Annie Dillard, Larry McMurtry, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, Lorraine Hansberry, E. E. Cummings, Joni Mitchell, Anne Tyler, Thomas Wolfe, Kate Chopin, John Wesley Powell, T. S. Eliot, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ian Frazier, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Meriwether Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Edith Wharton, Julia Alvarez, E. B. White, Anne Bradstreet, Amos Bronson Alcott, Ezra Pound, Jack London, Thornton Wilder, Lillian Hellman, Theodore Roethke, Robert Frost, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Robert Hayden, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Zora Neale Hurston, Grace Paley, James Baldwin, Linda Ellis, Margaret Fuller, William Stafford, Richard Lederer, William Bradford
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Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, O. Henry, Octavio Paz, Bei Dao, Saki, Luo Guanzhong, Dylan Thomas, Guy de Maupassant, Kay Boyle, Doris Lessing, Dorothy Parker, Colette, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Karl Jay Shapiro, Jorge Luis Borges, Fanny Kemble, Richard Hovey, Heinrich Böll, Buchi Emecheta, A. R. Ammons, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Sophocles, Margaret Walker, Rudyard Kipling, N. Scott Momaday, Anita Desai, John Keats, John Steinbeck, William Stanley Braithwaite, Willa Cather, Truman Capote, Paul Verlaine, John Masefield, John Updike, W. H. Auden, Isaac Asimov, William Shakespeare, James Thurber, Calvin Trillin, Marianne Moore, Elinor Wylie, Julio Cortázar, Carl Sandburg, Ray Bradbury, Mark Twain, Isak Dinesen, Lucille Clifton, Christopher Morley, Langston Hughes, Edgar Allan Poe, Chinua Achebe, Conrad Aiken, Denise Levertov, Jack Finney, Amy Lowell, Gwendolyn Brooks, Kathleen Raine, W. W. Jacobs, Evan S. Connell, Frank Marshall Davis, Alan Paton, Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, Georgia Douglas (Camp) Johnson, Eve Merriam, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko, Stephen Vincent Benét, George Herbert, Mark Helprin, Rachel Carson, Emily Dickinson, Jean Toomer, Gabriela Mistral, Theodore H. White, Thomas Malory, T. H. White, Josephina Niggli, Nikki Giovanni, Toshio Mori, Carl Stephenson, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth, Mary Oliver, Edward D. Hoch, Annie Dillard, Elizabeth Bishop, Van Wyck Brooks, Ann Beattie, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Lorraine Hansberry, Sara Teasdale, Humbert Wolfe, Italo Calvino, Edwin Muir, Heraclitus of Ephesus, Anne Tyler, John Ciardi, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Wisława Szymborska, Robert Francis McNamara, Aaron Copland, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, E. B. White, McCrae, John, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Theodore Roethke, Frank R. Stockton, Sarah Orne Jewett, Robert Frost, Leslie Norris, William Melvin Kelley, Jesse Stuart, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Richard Wilbur
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