Toni Morrison (1931–2019)
Author of Beloved
About the Author
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Works by Toni Morrison
Race-ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality (1992) — Editor; Introduction — 325 copies
The Dancing Mind: Speech upon Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished C ontribution to… (1996) 81 copies
Birth of a Nation'hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson Case (1997) — Editor; Introduction — 70 copies
Goodness and the Literary Imagination: Harvard's 95th Ingersoll Lecture with Essays on Morrison's Moral and… (2019) 21 copies
Who's Got Game?: The Ant or the Grasshopper?, The Lion or the Mouse?, Poppy or the Snake? (2007) 16 copies
Sweetness 9 copies
Previn & Morrison: Honey and Rue / Barber: Knoxville, Summer of 1915 / Gershwin: Excerpts from Porgy and Bess [sound… — Author — 7 copies
A Toni Morrison Treasury: The Big Box; The Ant or the Grasshopper?; The Lion or the Mouse?; Poppy or the Snake?; Peeny… (2023) 7 copies
God Help the Child: Englischer Text mit deutschen Worterklärungen. B2 – C1 (GER) (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek) (2019) 3 copies
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am 3 copies
Najplavlje oko 2 copies
Preaiubita 2 copies
Song of Solomon; Beloved 2 copies
Toni Morrison uncensored 2 copies
On Peter Sellars 1 copy
The Essential Guide 1 copy
බිලවුඩ් 1 copy
PÉROLA NEGRA (PVL116) 1 copy
A Weekend at Blenheim 1 copy
Six Novels - Toni Morrison 1 copy
2000 1 copy
2007 1 copy
Morrison, Toni Archive 1 copy
We Do Language 1 copy
Associated Works
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] (1884) — Contributor — 1,478 copies
James Baldwin: Collected Essays, Notes of a Native Son, Nobody Knows My Name, The Fire Next Time, No Name in the… (1998) — Editor — 1,062 copies
James Baldwin: Early Novels and Stories: Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni’s Room / Another Country / Going to… (1998) — Editor — 574 copies
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Contributor — 160 copies
The House That Race Built: Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black… (1997) — Contributor — 126 copies
Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds: Stories by and about Black Women (1990) — Contributor — 104 copies
Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American (1999) — Contributor — 102 copies
Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories (1992) — Contributor — 100 copies
Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by African-American Writers (1996) — Contributor — 88 copies
Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories About the Keepers of Our Traditions (1994) — Contributor — 78 copies
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Contributor — 76 copies
Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life (1997) — Contributor — 47 copies
Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Contributor — 37 copies
Nobel Lectures: 20 Years of the Nobel Prize for Literature Lectures (2007) — Contributor — 14 copies
American Experience: Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice [1989 TV episode] — Narrator — 4 copies
Presentask med fyra Nobelnoveller från Novellix : Steinbeck, Morrison m fl (2018) — Author — 2 copies
African American Literature: A Concise Anthology from Frederick Douglass to Toni Morrison (2009) — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Morrison, Chloe Anthony Wofford
- Other names
- Wofford, Chloe Ardelia (birth name)
- Birthdate
- 1931-02-18
- Date of death
- 2019-08-05
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Lorain, Ohio, USA
- Place of death
- New York, New York, USA
- Cause of death
- pneumonia
- Places of residence
- Washington, D.C., USA
Ithaca, New York, USA
Houston, Texas, USA
Syracuse, New York, USA
New York, New York, USA
Albany, New York, USA (show all 7)
Princeton, New Jersey, USA - Education
- Howard University (BA, English, 1953)
Cornell University (MA, American Literature, 1955) - Occupations
- author
university professor
literary editor - Relationships
- Morrison, Slade (son)
Brown, Sterling Allen (professor)
Polite, Carlene Hatcher (cousin) - Organizations
- Random House
Princeton University - Awards and honors
- National Book Award, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (1996)
Nobel Prize (1993)
National Humanities Medal (2000)
Norman Mailer Prize (2009)
Jefferson Lecture (1996)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1981) (show all 10)
Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry (2016)
PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction (2016)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2012)
Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2010) - Agent
- Amanda Urban (ICM)
William Loverd - Short biography
- Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987); she gained worldwide recognition when she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
Born and raised in Lorain, Ohio, Morrison graduated from Howard University in 1953 with a B.A. in English. In 1955, she earned a master's in American Literature from Cornell University. In 1957 she returned to Howard University, was married, and had two children before divorcing in 1964. In the late 1960s, she became the first black female editor in fiction at Random House in New York City. In the 1970s and 1980s, she developed her own reputation as an author, and her perhaps most celebrated work, Beloved, was made into a 1998 film.
In 1996, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected her for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities. Also that year, she was honored with the National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. On May 29, 2012, President Barack Obama presented Morrison with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2016, she received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction.
Members
Discussions
Thornwillow Press - Song of Solomon in Fine Press Forum (March 2023)
Group Read: “Paradise” by Toni Morrison in 75 Books Challenge for 2021 (March 2021)
Toni Morrison in Legacy Libraries (November 2020)
March Group Read: Beloved by Toni Morrison in 2015 Category Challenge (April 2015)
Group Read, January 2015: Sula in 1001 Books to read before you die (January 2015)
Toni Morrison- American Author Challenge in 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (May 2014)
Group Read - Beloved in The 11 in 11 Category Challenge (September 2011)
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Statistics
- Works
- 91
- Also by
- 52
- Members
- 82,120
- Popularity
- #147
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 1,542
- ISBNs
- 1,078
- Languages
- 33
- Favorited
- 363