Imani Perry's Looking for Lorraine continues to win Awards

Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry (Beacon Press, 2018) continues to win awards: on Monday, June 3, author Dr. Imani Perry received the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction.

Dr. Perry and Looking for Lorraine have also been awarded:

PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography (2019)

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Honor Book for Nonfiction (2019)

Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History Finalist (2019)

Judy Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction (2019)

Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry is also a New York Times Notable Book of 2018.