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Lorraine Hansberry, the playwright best known for her masterpiece A Raisin in the Sun, comes alive in this comprehensive biography. Colbert (African American studies and performing arts, Georgetown Univ.) pulls from Hansberry's distinctly separate public and private lives to produce a fully formed portrait of this brilliant, complex woman. Born in 1930, Hansberry understood the work it took to achieve racial justice from an early age, when her family moved...Log In or Sign Up to Read More