Imani Perry is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and a faculty associate with the Programs in Law and Public Affairs, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Jazz Studies. She is the author of a number of books, including Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, which received the Pen Bograd-Weld Award for Biography, The Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award for outstanding work in literary scholarship, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction and the Shilts-Grahn Award for nonfiction from the Publishing Triangle. Looking for Lorraine was also...
Lydia Reeder
As I see it, my job as an author is to bring to light lost heroes who led humble, hardworking lives like those featured in my first book, Dust Bowl Girls.
An Oklahoma native, my roots run deep. Some of my favorite times as a child were spent on my grandfather's ranch near Chickasha making hay-bale tunnels, fishing for bass, or traipsing through miles of pasture. I always had a skinned knee or a sunburned nose. There was nothing like the beauty of an Oklahoma sunset. At night, the only noises were crickets and wind.
Today, I live in Denver with my husband and our five cats. My outdoor...
Imani Perry
Imani Perry is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and a faculty associate with the Programs in Law and Public Affairs, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Jazz Studies. She is the author of a number of books, including Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, which received the Pen Bograd-Weld Award for Biography, The Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award for outstanding work in literary scholarship, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction and the Shilts-Grahn Award for nonfiction from the Publishing Triangle. Looking for Lorraine was also...
Lydia Reeder
As I see it, my job as an author is to bring to light lost heroes who led humble, hardworking lives like those featured in my first book, Dust Bowl Girls.
An Oklahoma native, my roots run deep. Some of my favorite times as a child were spent on my grandfather's ranch near Chickasha making hay-bale tunnels, fishing for bass, or traipsing through miles of pasture. I always had a skinned knee or a sunburned nose. There was nothing like the beauty of an Oklahoma sunset. At night, the only noises were crickets and wind.
Today, I live in Denver with my husband and our five cats. My outdoor...