Charles J. Shields

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Charles J Shields

Charles J. Shields is the author of the bestselling biography Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee (Henry Holt & Co., 2006, rev. 2017), the Kurt Vonnegut biography And So It Goes (Holt, 2011), the biography of Stoner author, John Edward Williams: The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel (University of Texas Press, 2017), and Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ (Holt, 2021). Shields has spoken to hundreds of audiences in the United States and abroad, and his work has been reviewed in newspapers and magazines worldwide.

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Lorraine Hansberry
The moving story of the life of the woman behind A Raisin in the Sun, the most widely anthologized, read, and performed play of the American stage, by the New York Times bestselling author of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee.

Written when she was just twenty-eight, Lorraine Hansberry’s landmark A Raisin in the Sun is listed by the National Theatre as one of the hundred most significant works of the twentieth century. Hansberry was the first Black woman to have a play performed on Broadway, and the first Black and youngest American playwright to win a New York Critics’ Circle Award.

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