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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.
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 .
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Here are 13 more of Toni Morrison’s most powerful quotes. "If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it." - 1981 speech before the Ohio ...
Garner's life also inspired Toni Morrison to write her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved (1987). Morrison also wrote the libretto for the opera Margaret Garner (2005), composed by Richard Danielpour. Folk musician Jake Speed's "Maggie Don't You Weep" (2003) is similarly inspired by Garner's life.
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 ...
Film critic Janet Maslin, in her New York Times review "No Peace from a Brutal Legacy", called it a "transfixing, deeply felt adaptation of Toni Morrison's novel. ... Its linchpin is of course Oprah Winfrey, who had the clout and foresight to bring 'Beloved' to the screen and has the dramatic presence to hold it together."
Her memoir was turned into a film in 2017 starring Brie Larson. ... iconic novelist Toni Morrison studied at Howard and Cornell Universities before working as a publishing editor for many years ...