The Resume

(May 19, 1930-January 12, 1965)
Born in Chicago, Illinois
Wrote the plays 'A Raisin in the Sun' (1959) and 'The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window' (1964)
Other writings adapted into the play 'To Be Young, Gifted and Black' (1968)
Incomplete works published as 'Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays' (1994)

Why she might be annoying:

Her second play was nowhere near as successful as her first.
NBC rejected her script for 'The Drinking Gourd,' a movie about slavery, as too controversial for TV.
She moved to Los Angeles to escape allegations that her family were slumlords in Chicago.
P. Diddy made his Broadway debut in a revival of 'Raisin in the Sun.'

Why she might not be annoying:

After her parents moved the family to a whites-only neighborhood, their house was repeatedly vandalized and she was harassed on the way to and from school.
She met her husband, Robert Nemiroff, on a picket line while both were protesting discrimination against black athletes at New York University.
She was the youngest person and first African American to win the New York Drama Critics Award (1959).
When an interviewer said of Raisin, 'This is not really a Negro play, it's a play about people,' she responded, 'Well, I hadn't noticed the contradiction because I was under the impression that Negroes are people.'
She inspired the Nina Simone song 'To Be Young, Gifted and Black.'

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Appeared on PBS' American Masters
• Bisexuals
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 11]
• College Drop Outs
• Ebony Magazine's 100 Most Fascinating Black Women of the 20th Century [March 1999]
• I am from Chicago
• I Attended University of Wisconsin-Madison
• I Died in 1965 (Ranked: 34)
• I Died in My 30s (Ranked: 34)
• I Have Lung Cancer
• I Have Pancreatic Cancer
• I Married Outside My Race
• I'm Remembered in a Tribute Song
• National Women's Hall of Fame (Ranked: 2017)
• Playwrights
• Profiles 22501-22750 (Ranked: 22741)
• Women Who Kept Their Maiden Name After Marriage [Lucy Stoners]

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 11 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 20 Votes: 55.00% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 11 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 28 Votes: 60.71% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 41 Votes: 60.98% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 39 Votes: 69.23% Annoying