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     • This venture into theater is a brave act for a novelist, even for one so distinguished as Toni Morrison. Not only does any new play invite sharp scrutiny at a time when serious drama is in decline, but novelists turned dramatists have historically failed in their efforts to move from printed page to the boards.
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     TONI MORRISON TRIES HER HAND AT PLAYWRITING

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   How did Toni Morrison read the New York Times?

   • Toni Morrison read the New York Times with pencil in hand. An editor by trade, Morrison never stopped noting errors in the paper. In 2015, during a conversation with The New Yorker’s Hilton Als, Morrison observed that the stories she cared about were once absent from the news. Now they were present but distorted, she found.

   Toni Morrison on Her Last Novel and the Voices of Her Characters

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   Why is Toni Morrison a great writer?

   • Morrison’s language is always this precise and controlled in its effects, and it is always reaching for a bigger and more indelible story. That’s why her legacy — both as an editor and as a novelist — is going to outlive us all. Toni Morrison in Milan, Italy, in 1994.

   Toni Morrison’s immortal legacy, explained in one passage

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   When did Toni Morrison die?

   • In 1979, the famed author gave a public reading and met with classes and student groups. Note: This interview with writer Toni Morrison, who died on Aug. 5, 2019, was published in the Spring 1980 issue of the Alumnae Bulletin under the headline Two Major Events of the Year: The Visits of Writers Toni Morrison and Eudora Welty.

   In Her Own Words: Toni Morrison on Writing, Editing, and Teaching

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   Why did Toni Morrison win the Nobel Prize?

   • “I wish that Toni Morrison, a bedazzling writer and a great human being, had won her prize only for her excellence at stringing words together,” said writer Erica Jong when Morrison won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993. “I suspect, however, that her prize was not motivated solely by artistic considerations.

   Toni Morrison’s immortal legacy, explained in one passage

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3. www.nytimes.com › 1985/12/29 › theaterTONI MORRISON TRIES HER HAND AT PLAYWRITING

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   Dec 29, 1985 · She wrote her novels at night, after her two sons were in bed and household chores were done. Of late she has been involved in a new novel, ''Beloved,'' a project temporarily put aside during...

4. www.vox.com › culture › 2019/8/6Toni Morrison’s immortal legacy, explained in one passage - Vox

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   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...

5. www.brynmawr.edu › bulletin › her-own-words-toniIn Her Own Words: Toni Morrison on Writing, Editing, and Teaching

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   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.

6. www.britannica.com › biography › Toni-MorrisonToni Morrison | Biography, Books, Beloved, The Bluest Eye ...

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   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.

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7. www.theparisreview.org › interviews › 1888Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 134

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   Toni Morrison, ca. 2008. Photograph by Angela Radulescu Toni Morrison detests being called a “poetic writer.”. She seems to think that the attention that has been paid to the lyricism of her work marginalizes her talent and denies her stories their power and resonance. As one of...

8. www.newyorker.com › culture › the-new-yorkerToni Morrison on Her Last Novel and the ... - The New Yorker

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   Aug 7, 2019 · The New Yorker Interview. Toni Morrison on Her Last Novel and the Voices of Her Characters. In a conversation with Hilton Als at the 2015 New Yorker Festival, the Nobel laureate discussed...

9. www.themarginalian.org › 2016/12/07 › toni-morrisonStorytelling and the Power of Language: Toni Morrison’s ...

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   Dec 7, 2016 · In the final weeks of 1993, Toni Morrison (February 18, 1931–August 5, 2019) became the first African American woman to receive the Nobel Prize, awarded her for being a writer “who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.” On December 7, Morrison took the podium ...