1925–2007
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Lorraine Hansberry
1930–1965
United States
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Hansberry's 1959 drama A Raisin in the Sun broke new ground for Black playwrights and offered an unflinching portrait of a Chicago family pursuing the American dream.
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1911–1968
c. 1729–1780