By Imani Perry, Beacon Press
"Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, [Lorraine Hansberry’s] short life was full of extraordinary experiences and achievements, and she had an unflinching commitment to social justice, which brought her under FBI surveillance when she was barely in her twenties. While her close friends and contemporaries, like James Baldwin and Nina Simone, have been rightly celebrated, her story has been diminished and relegated to one work—until now… [with] Imani Perry’s multi-dimensional, illuminating biography, Looking for Lorraine." —Beacon PressLooking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
The Christian Gauss Award
The Phi Beta Kappa Award for Science
Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
About the Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards
The Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards are given annually to outstanding scholarly books published in the United States. Winning works, which are drawn from the fields of the humanities, the social sciences, the natural sciences and mathematics, must be of broad interest and accessible to the general reader. Each award carries a $10,000 prize and acceptance at the Annual Book Awards Dinner. The winners were selected by panels of experts who reviewed five short-listed titles in each of the three award categories.
Listen to the Winners
The Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards Dinner was held at the Carnegie Insitution for Science on December 6, 2019 in Washington, DC. Winners Imani Perry, Adam Frank, and Sarah E. Igo revealed their thinking behind the works we celebrated and shared stories of unmatched discovery, spoke of love beyond adversity, and fueled our collective imagination with examples of unbound human curiosity.
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