Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 family of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit .
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist and editor. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye , was published in 1970.
Beloved is a 1998 American gothic psychological horror drama film [2] directed by Jonathan Demme and 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 woman after the American Civil War, her haunting by a poltergeist, and the visitation of her reincarnated daughter.
Toni Morrison, the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, is gone. But her unique voice endures in novels like "Beloved." Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize winner, author of 'Beloved ...
Toni Morrison, iconic author and the first African-American woman to win a Nobel prize, passed away at age 88. Before her passing, Morrison, born in Ohio on February 18, 1931, was regarded as one ...
The 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the African-American novelist Toni Morrison (1931–2019) "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality." [1] [2] Morrison was awarded before the third novel of the Beloved Trilogy was published.
Morrison previously used the historic Margaret Garner as the inspiration for her novel Beloved.This is one of a few operas written about the African-American experience; other notable examples are George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (1935) and Scott Joplin's Treemonisha (1910/1972).
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us