The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Posthumous works
Her ex-husband Robert Nemiroff became the executor for several unfiniLorraine Hansberryd manuscripts. Death
After a battle with pancreatic cancer Lorraine Hansberry died on January 12 1965 aged 34. In 1953 Lorraine Hansberry married Robert Nemiroff a Jewish publiLorraine Hansberryr songwriter and political activist.

Her best known work the play A Raisin in the Sun was inspired by her family's battle against racial segregation in Chicago. Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19 1930 – January 12 1965) was an African-American playwright and writer.