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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 · 1,299,980 ratings · 98,303 reviews · 234 distinct works • Similar authors
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
3.98 avg rating — 487,813 ratings — published 1987 — 19 editions
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The Bluest Eye
4.13 avg rating — 298,350 ratings — published 1970 — 11 editions
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Song of Solomon
4.16 avg rating — 126,798 ratings — published 1977 — 201 editions
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Sula
4.05 avg rating — 122,344 ratings — published 1973 — 122 editions
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Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)
3.90 avg rating — 37,488 ratings — published 1992 — 11 editions
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Recitatif
4.30 avg rating — 30,696 ratings — published 1983 — 45 editions
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A Mercy
3.77 avg rating — 32,648 ratings — published 2008 — 108 editions
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God Help the Child
3.78 avg rating — 32,230 ratings — published 2015 — 84 editions
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Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3)
3.86 avg rating — 28,979 ratings — published 1997 — 111 editions
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Home
3.83 avg rating — 27,950 ratings — published 2012 — 99 editions
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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
tags: books, writing
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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.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved
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The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (pub 1910, 209 pp, last read February 2015)
 
  80 votes, 26.1%

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (pub 1869, 667 pp, last read April 2016)
 
  69 votes, 22.5%

Beloved by Toni Morrison (pub 1987, 324 pp, last read March 2017)
 
  53 votes, 17.3%

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo (pub 1831, 510 pp, last read April 2016)
 
  48 votes, 15.7%

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (pub 1979, 287 pp, last read May 2019)
 
  34 votes, 11.1%

Despair by Vladimir Nabokov (pub 1934, 212 pp, last read Sept. 2013)
 
  22 votes, 7.2%

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