Looking for Lorraine : The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry

Largely defined by her trailblazing play A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry died in 1965 at age thirty-four. A prolific and probing artist, she was also one of the most radical, courageous, and prescient artist-intellectuals of the twentieth century-and one of the least understood. Looking for Lorraine gives us the ultimate gift of imagining Hansberry as a complete person-and of seeing her prodigious intellect, emotions, activism, and varied relationships at work together in her short but extraordinarily luminous life. Book jacket.