To Be Young, Gifted and Black: An Informal Autobiography (Signet)

by Lorraine Hansberry

Other authorsJames Baldwin (Introduction), Robert Nemiroff (Adapter)
Paperback, 1970

Status

Checked out

Tags

autobiography, memoir, nonfiction, black history, drama

Genres

Publication

Signet (1970), Edition: Reissue, 272 pages

Description

The prose and dramatic writings of Lorraine Hansberry provide autobiographical information about the author's life, thoughts, feelings, and career.

User reviews

LibraryThing member booksaplenty1949
A work which aspires to fill an autobiographical gap, but which makes no reference to the fact that Hansberry left her husband Robert Nemiroff to live as a gay woman. Understandable perhaps, given the time the book was published and the fact that Nemiroff edited it, but a fairly serious omission
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Language

English

Original language

English

Physical description

272 p.; 4.36 inches

ISBN

0451159527 / 9780451159526

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