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Author Info (Casey Schall): Lorraine Hansberry was born in 1930 in the Southside of Chicago. Hansberry was a famous playwrighter and painter.

Lacey Layton: Born in Chicago in 1930. Died in 1965. A Raisin in the sun is the first play produced on broadway that was written by a black writter. her purpose for writing A Raisin in the Sun was to show " the many graduations in even one Negro family". The characters suffer, hope, dream, and triumph over the enormous barriers erected by the dominant culture. Lorraine's a granddaughter of a freed slave. She became a spokes person for black Americans. her writing reflected her fight for black civil rights and her views againest racism, and sexual and statutory discrimination.

Alyssa The University of Wisconsin is were Hansberry was enrolled. Hansberry's, //A Raisin in the Sun// all started in theater on March 11, 1959, The play hit so well hansberry was given a Drama Circle Critics Award for 1958-59 Ever since its Broadway debut, Raisin in the sun was translated into just about thirty languages, German, and Sorbische minority. Some of the critics viewed //Raisin// as,"a play about Negros". But even that didn't stop Hansberry,one of her famous Quotes is, ". . in order to create the universal, you must pay very close attention to the specific. Unfortunatly Hansberry died and utimely death at the age of thirty-four on January 12, 1965, she left behind three ufinished plays and an unfinished semi autobiography.Hansberry has influenced many righters, and I believe that she will continue to.