When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. A play that changed American theater forever.-The New York Times. | A Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Mass Market Paperback | Indigo Chapters