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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.
Honey and Rue is a song cycle composed by Oscar and Grammy award winner André Previn and premiered by Kathleen Battle, with words from poems by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. [1] It is scored for a solo soprano and small orchestra and is influenced by the rhythms of jazz, blues and American spirituals. [2]
Henry Dumas (July 20, 1934 – May 23, 1968) was an American writer and poet. He has been called "an absolute genius" by Toni Morrison, [1] who as a commissioning editor at Random House published posthumous collections both of his poetry, Play Ebony, Play Ivory, [2] and his short stories, Ark of Bones, in 1974.
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 ...
To much of the world the late Toni Morrison was a novelist, celebrated for such classics as Beloved, Song of The post Rare Toni Morrison short story to be published as a book appeared first on ...
Song of Solomon, Morrison's third novel, was met with widespread acclaim, and Morrison earned the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 1978. [3] Reynolds Price, reviewing the novel for The New York Times, concluded: "Toni Morrison has earned attention and praise. Few Americans know, and can say, more than she has in this wise and ...
Nikki Giovanni, a prominent poet, civil rights activist and educator, has died at 81. ... Read more:Toni Morrison dead at 88: 'Beloved' author captured tragic and joyful complexion of life and race.
Dreaming Emmett is the debut play by American writer Toni Morrison. First performed in 1986, it was commissioned by the New York State Writers Institute at SUNY-Albany . [ 1 ] The play's world premiere, directed by Gilbert Moses , took place on January 5, 1986 at Capital Repertory Theatre in Albany, New York for a four-week run.