Description: Looking for Lorraine : The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, Paperback by Perry, Imani, ISBN 0807039837, ISBN-13 9780807039830, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Winner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction Winner of the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Winner of the 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award A New York Times Notabl of 2018 A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century. Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her short life was full of extraordinary experiences and achievements, and she had an unflinching commitment to social justice, which brought her under FBI surveillance when she was barely in her twenties. While her close friends and contemporaries, like James Baldwin and Nina Simone, have been rightly celebrated, her story has been diminished and relegated to one work—until now. In 2018, Hansberry will get the recognition she deserves with the PBS American Masters documentary “Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart” and Imani Perry’s multi-dimensional, illuminating biography, Looking for Lorraine. After the success of A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry used her prominence in myriad ways: challenging President Kennedy and his brother to take bolder stances on Civil Rights, supporting African anti-colonial leaders, and confronting the romantic racism of the Beat poets and Village hipsters. Though she married a man, she identified as lesbian and, risking censure and the prospect of being outed, joined one of the nation’s first lesbian organizations. Hansberry associated with many activists, writers, and musicians, including Malcolm X, Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, Paul Robeson, . Du Bois, among others. Looking for Lorraine is a powerful insight into Hansberry’s extraordinary life—a life that was tragically cut far too short. A Black Caucus of the American Library Association Honor Book for Nonfiction A 2019 Pauli Murray Book Prize Finalist
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Book Title: Looking for Lorraine : the Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Beacon Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2019
Topic: American / African American, Civil Rights, Literary, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Lgbt, African American
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 13.5 Oz
Item Length: 8.9 in
Author: Imani Perry
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
