Hansberry

American  

[hanz-ber-ee] / ˈhænz bɛr i /

noun

1. Lorraine, 1930–65, U.S. playwright.

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Example Sentences

In October 1964, days after the play opened on Broadway, a headline appeared in The New York Times: “Lorraine Hansberry Ill, Placed on Critical List.”

From New York Times

Lorraine Hansberry didn’t have the luxury of getting “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” right.

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All of which surely helps to explain the unwieldiness of “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,” a play that we might have looked back on as an early effort if only Hansberry had lived.

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Then, on Jan. 13, 1965, a report of Hansberry’s death the previous day, from cancer, at age 34.

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Clamorous with the voices of men, who take up an awful lot of oxygen, it is most incisive and piercing in the voices of its women, whom Hansberry draws with exquisite fullness.

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