Pat McKissack; Fredrick McKissack | Young, Black, And Determined | The story of twenty-eight-year-old Chicago-born Lorraine Hansberry, whose 1959 Broadway play skyrocketed her to fame, describes the background of her
Lorraine Hansberry | To Be Young, Gifted And Black | A long-running success of the 1968/69 Off-Broadway season. Fast paced, powerful, touching and hilarious, this kaleidoscope of constantly shifting scen
Lorraine Hansberry | To Be Young, Gifted And Black | In her first play, the now-classic A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry introduced the lives of ordinary African Americans into our national theatrical repe
Susan Quinn | Eleanor And Hick | A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok–a relationship that, over more than three decades, transfor
Josyane Savigneau | Marguerite Yourcenar | Marguerite Yourcenar was born Marguerite de Crayencour in Brussels in 1903. She lost her mother at birth, her native Belgium at the age of six, and wa
Josyane Savigneau | Marguerite Yourcenar | ‘ Solitude… je ne crois pas comme ils croient, je ne vis pas comme ils vivent, je n’aime pas comme ils aiment… Je mourrai comme ils meurent ‘, écr
Simon Goldhill | A Very Queer Family Indeed | “We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind.” So begins A
Leslie Brody | Sometimes You Have To Lie | ‘The protagonist and anti-heroine of Louise Fitzhugh’s masterpiece Harriet the Spy, first published first in 1964, continues to mesmerize generation a
Hilary Holladay | The Power of Adrienne Rich | The first comprehensive biography of Adrienne Rich, feminist and queer icon and internationally revered National Book Award winning poet. Adrienne Ri
