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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry
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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry

by Imani Perry

Winner of the 2019 PEN/Bograd Weld Award for Biography

The book, according to the author

It frustrated Lorraine that figures in the theatre world looked down on ‘the social dramatist.’ She saw that all art is political, whether explicitly so or not. She didn’t subscribe to the idea that there’s something strange about artists engaging in the world that they’re trying to depict or change.

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