lit a candle 12d agoI never met Toni, but I feel like I grew up with them. Thank you for being part of my life.
Their story
Toni Morrison wrote Beloved, Song of Solomon and The Bluest Eye and became the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was also an editor who brought many Black writers into print.
In their own words
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
Photos
4From Enoch Pratt Library January 29, 1998© copyright John Mathew Smith 2001
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Toni Morrison speaking at "A Tribute to Chinua Achebe - 50 Years Anniversary of 'Things Fall Apart'". The Town Hall, New York City, February 26th, 2008.
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Photo portrait of Toni Morrison for the first-edition back cover of her debut novel, The Bluest Eye (1970).
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Morrison Dining, part of the North Campus Residential Expansion, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
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Well put.