{"value"=>"<p>Hansberry's development as a playwright and intellectual is well documented, primarily through a number of interviews she gave for print and broadcast media after the success of A Raisin in the Sun. The Interviews subseries reveals the writer's thoughts and responses to the success of the play, and quite a few delve into her philosophy on life and the theatre, her creative strategies, and aspirations as a writer. Many interviews were printed in newspapers and magazines such as the New York Times, The Village Voice, Chicago Sun-Times, New York Herald, and The New Yorker. There are also transcriptions of interviews done on radio and television programs. A few of the interviews were annotated by either Hansberry or Nemiroff.</p> <p>The in-depth interviews, among them \"Lorraine Hansberry: Make New Sounds\", in 1959 with Studs Terkel, aptly captures the writer's intellectual concerns and insights, as does \"Negro Writers in America: Negro in American Culture\". The latter was a group interview moderated by Nat Hentofff that included Hansberry, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Alfred Kazin, and Macmillan & Co. editor Emile Capouya. Both files contain transcripts and published versions of each interview. Harold Isaac's \"Five Writers and Their African Ancestors\" (Phylon, 1960) profiles Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Hansberry. The section on Hansberry features a critique of A Raisin in the Sun with commentary by Hansberry. The transcript of CBS reporter Mike Wallace's 1959 interview with Hansberry for WNTA's \"Television Portraits of Colorful People\" series is included in this subseries. There are also interviews with the writer for WNYC in 1961; National Education Television and Radio Center in 1961; and an untitled interview for the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) in 1959.</p>"}