About the Author

Mollie Godfrey is associate professor of English at James Madison University. She is coeditor of Neo-Passing: Performing Identity after Jim Crow.

Reviews

Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry allows the reader to hear the artist in dialogue without the filter of the biographer or documentarian. This is a collage of reflection, delight, and self-defense, from the dawn of Hansberry's career as a playwright to the posthumous recognition of her immense impact.-- "New York Review of Books"