FIRST VINTAGE BOOK EDITION, DECEMBER 1994
Copyright © 1958, 1986 by Robert Nemiroff, as an
unpublished work
Copyright © 1959, 1966, 1984, 1987, 1988 by Robert
Nemiroff
Introduction copyright © 1987, 1988 by Robert Nemiroff
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in somewhat different form by Random House, Inc., New York, in 1958.
Caution: Professionals and amateurs are hereby warned that A Raisin in the Sun, being fully protected under the copyright Laws of the United States of America, the British Empire, including the Dominion of Canada, and all other countries of the Universal Copyright and Berne Conventions, is subject to royalty. All rights, including professional, amateur, motion picture, recitation, lecturing, public reading, radio and television broadcasting, and the rights of translation into foreign languages, are strictly reserved. Particular emphasis is laid on the question of readings, permission for which must be secured in writing. All inquiries should be addressed to the William Morris Agency, 1350 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019, authorized agents for the Estate of Lorraine Hansberry and for Robert Nemiroff, Executor.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Alfred A. Knopf,
Inc. for permission to reprint eleven lines from “Dream Deferred”
(“Harlem”) from The Panther and the Lash by Langston
Hughes. Copyright © 1951 by Langston Hughes.
Reprinted by permission.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication
Data
Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930–1965.
A raisin in the sun / by Lorraine Hansberry; with an
introduction
by Robert Nemiroff.—1st Vintage Books ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-80744-1
1. Afro-Americans—History—20th century—Drama. I. Title.
PS3515.A515R3 1994
812′.54—dc20 94-20636
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