Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (née Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist and editor...
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Beloved (novel) (redirect from Beloved toni morrison)
Beloved is a 1987 novel by American novelist Toni Morrison. Set in the period after the American Civil War, the novel tells the story of a dysfunctional...
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personal background and lifestyle led to Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison to call him the first "black president". Clinton was also dogged by...
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The Bluest Eye (category Novels by Toni Morrison)
published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison. The novel takes place in Lorain, Ohio (Morrison's hometown), and tells the story of a young African-American...
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Afro-Surrealism (section Beloved, Toni Morrison)
simultaneously relevant to the present day. Comparing Dumas' writing to "Toni Morrison's wild, emotional 'places'," Baraka writes that "[b]oth utilize high...
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Toni Cade Bambara, born Miltona Mirkin Cade (March 25, 1939 – December 9, 1995), was an African-American author, documentary film-maker, social activist...
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novel by the American author Toni Morrison, originally published in 2012 by Alfred A. Knopf. Set in the 1950s, Morrison's Home rewrites the narrative of...
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Resistance literature (section Toni Morrison)
Honor, and an Otherwise Award Honor for their debut YA novel, PET. Toni Morrison (1931-2019) was a Black author who wrote her books specifically for...
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Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the African-American novelist Toni Morrison (1931–2019) "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic...
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Love (2003) is the eighth novel by Toni Morrison. Written in Morrison's non-linear style, the novel tells of the lives of several women and their relationships...
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Their Internet opera, entitled Four Electric Ghosts, was developed for Toni Morrison's Atelier at Princeton University in 2005 and the Kitchen in New York...
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Song of Solomon (novel) (category Novels by Toni Morrison)
Song of Solomon is a 1977 novel by American author Toni Morrison, her third to be published. It follows the life of Macon "Milkman" Dead III, an African-American...
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Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is a 2019 documentary film, directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, and produced by Johanna Giebelhaus, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders...
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Tar Baby (novel) (category Novels by Toni Morrison)
Tar Baby is a 1981 novel by the American author Toni Morrison, her fourth to be published. This novel portrays a love affair between Jadine and Son, two...
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films Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am and Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir, for which she received an Emmy nomination. Bostic also wrote and performed the Toni Morrison:...
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Princeton University, where she studied under Nobel Laureate in Literature Toni Morrison, who described Tuttle as "one of the best students I've ever had in...
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starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, and Thandiwe Newton. Based on Toni Morrison's 1987 novel of the same name, the plot centers on a formerly enslaved...
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Paradise is a 1998 novel by Toni Morrison, and her first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Paradise completes a "trilogy" that begins...
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Jazz (novel) (category Novels by Toni Morrison)
historical novel by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning American author Toni Morrison. The majority of the narrative takes place in Harlem during the 1920s;...
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Burn This Book (category Works by Toni Morrison)
of the Word is a 2009 book about censorship in literature, edited by Toni Morrison. It includes essays by Russell Banks, Nadine Gordimer, David Grossman...
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white. Toni Morrison wrote and spoke influentially about rejecting the white gaze. In an analysis of whiteness in American literature, Morrison said, "What...
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God Help the Child (category Novels by Toni Morrison)
God Help the Child is the 11th and final novel by American writer Toni Morrison. News of the book, as well as the title and opening line, were released...
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Dodson. Some of her fellow drama students at Howard included novelist Toni Morrison, actress Zaida Coles, stage director and playwright Shauneille Perry...
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never evade or erase, but will always struggle against." The novelist Toni Morrison praised the book, in that Coates "filled an intellectual gap in succession...
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a White descendant of slave owners, describes this complex legacy. Toni Morrison wrote that this sexual usage of slaves was known as droit du seigneur...
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A Mercy (category Novels by Toni Morrison)
A Mercy is Toni Morrison's ninth novel. It was published in 2008. Set in colonial America in the late 17th century, it is the story of a European farmer...
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Campus Residential Expansion provided housing for 800 sophomores in Toni Morrison Hall and Ganędagǫ Hall. Options for living on North Campus for upperclassmen...
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2002 Audrey Colombe described the movie's plot as an example of what "Toni Morrison calls a 'dehistoricizing allegory,'" with the Elijah Price character...
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was also a close friend of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison. Upon his death, Morrison wrote a eulogy for Baldwin that appeared in The New York...
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content creators "prefer to discuss Oscar Wilde and Emily Dickinson over Toni Morrison or James Baldwin". Sarah Burton, a sociology fellow at City, University...
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