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A Raisin in the sun

A Raisin in the sun appeared on

broadway in 1959.  The artist

became at tweenty-nine the

youngest American playwright,

 the fifth woman and the only

 African American to date to win

 the New York Drama Critics Circle

Award for best Play of the Year.

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an American playwright. Her drama A Raisin in the Sun (first performed in 1959) was the first drama written by a black woman to be produced on Broadway, and was the winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for best Broadway play of the 1958-1959 season. In 2004, A Raisin in the Sun received a Broadway revival earning Tony Awards for Phylicia Rashad and Audra McDonald. Hansberry grew up on the South Side of Chicago, in the neighborhood of Woodlawn.