Perry, Imani. Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry. Boston: Beacon Press, 2018. 237 pp.

Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965; Middle class families; Social conflict; Gifted children; Race relations; African American artists; Activism

Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry. In Perry's portrait of Hansberry, this artist-activist, despite the brevity of her life, clearly occupies a key position in the cultural, intellectual, and political life of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Throughout the book, Perry refers to her protagonist as simply "Lorraine", and from the start, she stresses the many parallels and points of identification she sees between Hansberry's and her own life. [Extracted from the article]