Imani Perry author biography, plus links to books by Imani Perry.

Imani Perry

Imani Perry is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. Perry is the author of 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; May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem; and South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation. Perry, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, who grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Chicago, lives outside Philadelphia with her two sons.

This biography was last updated on 01/25/2022.

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