로렌 핸즈베리

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로렌 핸즈베리(영어: Lorraine Hansberry 로레인 핸즈베리[*], 1930년 5월 19일 ~ 1965년 1월 12일)는 미국의 극작가, 작가, 연출가이다.

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was an American playwright and writer. She was the first Black American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Hansberry's best-known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of Black Americans in Chicago living under racial segregation. The title of the play was taken from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" At the age of 29, Hansberry won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award – making her the first Black American dramatist, the fifth woman, and the youngest playwright to do so. Her family had struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant in the 1940 U.S. Supreme Court case Hansberry v. Lee.