Books by Imani Perry

About

Imani Perry is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation and Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, winner of the 2019 Bograd-Weld Biography Prize from the Pen America Foundation. She is also the author of Breathe: A Letter to My Sons; Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation; and May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem. Perry, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, who grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Chicago, lives outside Philadelphia with her two sons.