Raisin in the Sun, A

Raisin in the Sun, A

By Lorraine Hansberry; Ossie Davis (Read by)
(Caedmon, Audio Cassette, Abridged, 9781559943789)

Publication Date: February 13, 1991

Categories: American

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When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life.




About the Author

Lorraine Hansberry was the youngest American playwright ever to win the Best American Play Award from the New York Drama Critics' Circle. Her other works include The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window and Les Blancs. She died of cancer at thirty-four.

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