The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
–Lorraine Hansberry, Playwright & Activist

The 1st black woman to write a play produced on Broadway, Hansberry also became the youngest American to win a NY Critics Circle award. Her most acclaimed play, “A Raisin in the Sun,” follows the lives of a black family (her family) in racially segregated Chicago.