# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lorraine-hansberry
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:01:27.711Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lorraine-hansberry"
name: "Lorraine Hansberry"
slug: "lorraine-hansberry"
description: "Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was an American playwright and civil rights activist. She was the first Black American female author to have a play performed on Broadway."
tagline: "African-American playwright and author (1930-1965)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%22The_Sign_in_Sidney_Brustein's_Window%22%2C_by_Lorraine_Hansberry_(cropped).tif?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1930-05-19"
deathDate: "1965-01-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 179
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump