Lorraine Hansberry Books in Order

An insurance payment offers the Younger family a chance to change their lives on Chicago’s South Side. Conflicting plans for a house, a business and medical school test their loyalties as they confront racism and financial insecurity.

Disillusioned Greenwich Village intellectual Sidney and his aspiring-actress wife Iris struggle with their relationships during a turbulent political campaign. Their friends’ competing choices force them to confront corruption, moral responsibility and the temptation to withdraw from the world.

Plays, essays, letters, drawings, and photographs assemble a portrait of Lorraine Hansberry's life and convictions. The collection follows her Chicago childhood, experiences of racism, and emergence as the playwright behind A Raisin in the Sun.

At a Christian mission in an African colony nearing revolution, Tshembe Matoseh faces the consequences of colonial rule and demands for liberation. Returning to a divided homeland forces him to confront loyalties that neutrality can no longer protect.