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Toni Morrison


Born
in Lorain, Ohio, The United States
February 18, 1931

Died
August 05, 2019

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Race Studies

Influences
James Baldwin, Doris Lessing, Zora Neale Hurtson, Henry Dumas, William ...more


Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison, known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist and editor. 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 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. Morrison earned a master's degree in American Literature from Cornell University in 1955. In 1957 she returned to Howard University, was married, and had two children before divorcing in 1964. Morrison became the first black female editor for fiction a ...more

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Average rating: 4.03 · 1,269,770 ratings · 94,165 reviews · 248 distinct works • Similar authors
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
3.97 avg rating — 479,012 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions
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The Bluest Eye
4.13 avg rating — 289,988 ratings — published 1970 — 2 editions
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Song of Solomon
4.15 avg rating — 124,489 ratings — published 1977
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Sula
4.05 avg rating — 117,997 ratings — published 1973 — 121 editions
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Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)
3.90 avg rating — 36,454 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions
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Recitatif
4.30 avg rating — 28,882 ratings — published 1983 — 43 editions
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A Mercy
3.76 avg rating — 32,031 ratings — published 2008 — 102 editions
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God Help the Child
3.78 avg rating — 31,823 ratings — published 2015 — 79 editions
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Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3)
3.86 avg rating — 28,614 ratings — published 1997 — 110 editions
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Home
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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison
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“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
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“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
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