<Tr> <Th> Spouse </Th> <Td> Robert Nemiroff (m . 1953--62) </Td> </Tr> <P> Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930--January 12, 1965) was an African - American playwright and writer . </P> <P> She was the first black woman to write a play performed on Broadway . Her best known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of Black Americans living under racial segregation in Chicago . Hansberry's family had struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant and eventually provoking the Supreme Court case Hansberry v. Lee . 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?" </P> <P> At the young age of 29, she won the New York's Drama Critic's Circle Award--making her the first black dramatist, the fifth woman, and the youngest playwright to do so . </P>

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