Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry / edited by Mollie Godfrey.

"Spanning from the debut of A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway in 1959 to her early death from cancer in January 1965, Lorraine Hansberry's short stint in the public eye changed the landscape of American theater. With A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry (1930-1965) became both the first African American wom...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965 (Interviewee)
Godfrey, Mollie, 1979- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]
Series:Literary conversations series.
Subjects:
Hansberry, Lorraine, > 1930-1965 > Interviews.
Hansberry, Lorraine, > 1930-1965.
African American women dramatists > Interviews.
Women dramatists, American > Interviews.
African American women dramatists.
Women dramatists, American.
Interviews.
Genre:
Interviews.
Physical Description:xxv, 222 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chronology
  • Raisin author tells meaning of her play / Lorraine Hansberry
  • A playwright, a promise: Lorraine Hansberry reveals a major talent in the forthcoming A Raisin in the Sun / Faye Hammel
  • Housewife's play is a hit / Sidney Fields
  • We have so much to say / Ted Poston
  • Ex-UW co-ed becomes "The Toast of New York" / Jack Gaver
  • Talk of the town: playwright / Lillian Ross
  • Interview with Lorraine Hansberry, Peter Glenville, Dore Schary, José Quintero, Lloyd Richards, and Arthur Laurents / David Susskind
  • The protest, part I / Rev. William Hamilton
  • Unaired interview with Lorraine Hansberry / Mike Wallace
  • Interview with Lorraine Hansberry / Studs Terkel
  • An author's reflection: Willy Loman, Walter Lee, and He Who Must Live / Lorraine Hansberry
  • Five writers and their African ancestors, part II: Lorraine Hansberry / Harold R. Isaacs
  • The negro in American culture: interview with James Baldwin, Emile Capouya, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes, and Alfred Kazin / Nat Hentoff
  • Interview with Lorraine Hansberry, Leo Genn, Reginald Gardiner, and Elizabeth Seal / Mitch Miller
  • Interview with Lorraine Hansberry / Patricia Marx
  • Images and essences: 1961 dialogue with an uncolored egghead containing wholesome intentions and some sass / Lorraine Hansberry
  • Interview with Lorraine Hansberry and Lloyd Richards / Frank Perry
  • Interview with Lorraine Hansberry / Eleanor Fischer
  • Miss Hansberry and Bobby K: birthweight low, jobs few, death comes early / Diane Fisher
  • The black revolution and the white backlash: a town hall forum / Association of Artists for Freedom
  • A Lorraine Hansberry rap / Lerone Bennett Jr. and Margaret G. Burroughs
  • Key resources.