>> she does have her cousin gail hansberry Ãbher cousin gail hansberry who lives in washington dc whohared tears. her best friend from childhood lives in new york but i actually talk to them after i finish the book her papers are at the schomburg center for research in black culture in harlem. the archivist tease me because i say i sort of moved in because i would take my kids to school in the drive to harlem. i live in philadelphia not princeton a little bit longer drive. i would stay as long as i could and drive home to pick up my kids from school and come back the same day. the next day. it's an extraordinary collection and i could use other archives so i could see à Ãi could see james baldwin's letter to her back and forth there. >> was a friend of hers? >> he was a close friend. she's at the crossroads of all these people and as he was dying, she wrote him an extraordinary obituary, that talked about his significance not just a scholar but as an important social and political force. as she is dying. something like heartbreakingly poetic about their relationship. >> robert, new yo

hansberry this this woman, she was 30.ng and she had been writing but in many ways she had also wait tables should work at camps. she had been a generous facet it was surprising and also surprising that she wrote this extraordinary place. a raisin in the sun is the most widely produced plato black tray right in the notice states. it has constant revivals, three film versions. and she hadn't yet turned 31 the play went up. she was w29. it was phenomenal. and heard. it was hard for her. >> where did you research this book does she have relatives living. >> she has her cousin gail hansberry, she has various relatives living we shared tears in her best friend from childhood lives in new york but i actually talk to them after i finish the book her papers are at the schomburg center for research in black culture in harlem. the archivist tease me because they say i moved in because what i would do is i would take my kids to school and then drive to harlem i live in philadelphia. a little bit longer drive. i would stay in a stacks