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A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay
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A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay Mass market paperbound - 1995

by Lorraine Hansberry; Robert Nemiroff (Editor); Commentaries by Spike Lee

This landmark volume brings readers an epic, eloquent work--the only edition available of the original script Lorraine Hansberry wrote to transform her incomparable stage play into film. This edition restores all deletions and brings readers the complete screenplay. Commentary by Spike Lee.


About this book

A Raisin in the Sun is the best-known work of author and playwright Lorraine Hansberry. It debuted on Broadway in 1959, making Hansberry the first African American woman to achieve this honor. The title comes from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes. 

First line

The unmistakable grating noise of an alarm clock intrudes as we move over the city-stained brick building.

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  • Title A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay
  • Author Lorraine Hansberry; Robert Nemiroff (Editor); Commentaries by Spike Lee
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Berkley Books, New York
  • Date 1995-04-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780451183880 / 0451183886
  • Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.91 x 4.19 x 0.73 in (17.55 x 10.64 x 1.85 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Dewey Decimal Code 812.54

About the author

Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) electrified the theatrical world with her first play, A Raisin in the Sun, which won the New York Critics Circle Award for the 1958-59 season. Before her tragic death from cancer at the age of 34, she had already produced a remarkable body of work, including The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window and Les Blancs. Her former husband and literary executor, the late Robert Nemiroff, posthumously produced and published her To Be Young, Gifted and Black and the musical Raisin.

Robert Nemiroff (1929-1991) was a Broadway producer and the literary executor of Lorraine Hansberry's estate.

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