Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
By Imani Perry, Beacon Press
"Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, [Lorraine Hansberry’s] 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… [with] Imani Perry’s multi-dimensional, illuminating biography, Looking for Lorraine." —Beacon Press