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“Anyone who has ever wondered what it really means to be Black will find the answer in this book.”—MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE

To Be Young, Gifted and Black is a special kind of autobiography, in a very special voice. Both the story and the voice belong to a young woman from Chicago who moved to New York, won fame with her first play, A Raisin in the Sun—and went on to new heights of artistry before her tragically early death.

In turns angry, loving, bitter, laughing, and defiantly proud, the story, voice, and message are all Lorraine Hansberry’s own, coming together in one of the major works of the Black experience in mid-twentieth-century America.


“A milestone.”—TIME

“Wonderfully moving and entertaining.”—Clive Barnes, THE NEW YORK TIMES

“I advise anybody who is interested in the human condition, black or white, to read it.”—NEWSDAY

To Be Young Gifted and Black by Lorraine

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    Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
    Publication Date: 04/01/2011
    ISBN13: 9780451531780, 978-0451531780
    ISBN10: 0451531787
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    Biography: arts and entertainment

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    “Anyone who has ever wondered what it really means to be Black will find the answer in this book.”—MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE

    To Be Young, Gifted and Black     is a special kind of autobiography, in a very special voice. Both the story and the voice belong to a young woman from Chicago who moved to New York, won fame with her first play, A Raisin in the Sun—and went on to new heights of artistry before her tragically early death.

    In turns angry, loving, bitter, laughing, and defiantly proud, the story, voice, and message are all Lorraine Hansberry’s own, coming together in one of the major works of the Black experience in mid-twentieth-century America.


    “A milestone.”—TIME

    “Wonderfully moving and entertaining.”—Clive Barnes, THE NEW YORK TIMES

    “I advise anybody who is interested in the human condition, black or white, to read it.”—NEWSDAY

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