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Feb 12, 2024 · Getty Images. One of the great 20th-Century novelists, Morrison consciously aimed her work at black American readers. In a 2003 interview, she told the BBC about why that made her writing sing. At...
Aug 6, 2019 · Toni Morrison, the Nobel laureate who died Monday night at the age of 88, was widely considered to be one of the great living American writers. And an enormous part of her literary legacy was the...
Mar 27, 2024 · Toni Morrison (born February 18, 1931, Lorain, Ohio, U.S.—died August 5, 2019, Bronx, New York) was an American writer noted for her examination of Black experience (particularly Black female experience) within the Black community. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
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Feb 18, 2021 · Toni Morrison was born in 1931 in Lorain, Ohio. She worked for many years as a book editor, published her first novel in 1970 and was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature. She died in...
Jan 27, 2020 · Toni Morrison’s Profound and Unrelenting Vision “The Bluest Eye,” which was published fifty years ago, cut a new path through the American literary landscape by placing black girls at...
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Aug 6, 2019 · Because Toni Morrison, who died Monday at the age of 88, was the first black woman to do some important things—become an editor at Random House and win the Nobel Prize for Literature among...
Morrison was on campus for two weeks in the fall of 1979 as the Lucy Martin Donnelly Fellow (Oct. 30-Nov 2; Nov. 13-16, 1979). As a Donnelly Fellow, she gave a public reading from Song of Solomon in Goodhart Hall (Nov. 1) and met with a number of classes and student groups. She returned to the College in 1984 to give the Convocation address.
