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© 2018 by Imani Perry
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Text design and composition by Michael Starkman at Wilsted & Taylor Publishing Services
Gwendolyn Brooks, “kitchenette building” from Selected Poems, published by Harper & Row. Copyright © 1963 by Gwendolyn Brooks.
Reprinted by consent of Brooks Permissions.
Richard B. Moore, “For Lorraine Hansberry,” reprinted by permission.
Frontispiece and photo on page 206: David Attie
for Vogue, 1960; reprinted by consent of Eli Attie.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Perry, Imani, author.
Title: Looking for Lorraine : the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry / Imani Perry.
Description: Boston : Beacon Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017055552 (print) | LCCN 2017058768 (ebook) | ISBN 9780807064504 (ebook) | ISBN 9780807064498 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965. | Dramatists, American—20th century—Biography. | African American dramatists—Biography. | African American women civil rights workers—Biography.
Classification: LCC PS3515.A515 (ebook) | LCC PS3515.A515 Z84 2018 (print) |
DDC 812/.54 [B] —dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017055552