The writer died in 1964 from cancer at the age of 34.
Her other works include Les Blancs and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. Hansberry’s seminal work A Raisin in the Sun premiered on Broadway in 1959, becoming the first play by a Black woman to be performed on the Main Stem. His work will explore, beyond her career as a playwright, the influence of her upper-class background, her fight for peace and nuclear disarmament, the reason why she embraced Communism during the Cold War, her marriage to and professional partnership with Robert B. Shields paints a picture of the artist using unpublished interviews with figures in theatre and politics, private correspondence, and independent research. Shields’s Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun will be published January 18, 2022, from Henry Holt & Co. A new biography about playwright Lorraine Hansberry is heading to bookshelves next year.
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