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Toni Morrison


Born
in Lorain, Ohio, The United States
February 18, 1931

Died
August 05, 2019

Website

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Race Studies

Influences
James Baldwin, William Faulkner, Doris Lessing, Herman Melville


Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford) was an American author, editor, and professor who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature for being an author "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality."

Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed African American characters; among the best known are her novels The Bluest Eye , Song of Solomon , and Beloved , which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. In 2001 she was named one of "The 30 Most Powerful Women in America" by Ladies' Home Journal.

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Average rating: 4.0 · 1,090,071 ratings · 71,457 reviews · 217 distinct works • Similar authors
Beloved
3.94 avg rating — 422,441 ratings — published 1987 — 344 editions
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The Bluest Eye
4.11 avg rating — 242,053 ratings — published 1970 — 199 editions
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Song of Solomon
4.13 avg rating — 109,665 ratings — published 1977 — 46 editions
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Sula
4.02 avg rating — 92,979 ratings — published 1973 — 109 editions
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Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)
3.88 avg rating — 30,978 ratings — published 1992 — 130 editions
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God Help the Child
3.78 avg rating — 29,236 ratings — published 2015 — 81 editions
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A Mercy
3.74 avg rating — 28,390 ratings — published 2008 — 99 editions
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Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3)
3.85 avg rating — 26,564 ratings — published 1997 — 105 editions
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Home
3.82 avg rating — 24,466 ratings — published 2012 — 95 editions
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Tar Baby
3.97 avg rating — 21,140 ratings — published 1981 — 101 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
tags: burdens, empowerment, flying, freedom, unburdening, weight
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“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved
tags: freedom, self
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Polls

February 2017 New School Classic Poll

 
  49 votes, 19.2%

Beloved by Toni Morrison, 324 pgs, 1987
 
  48 votes, 18.8%

 
  30 votes, 11.8%

I, Claudius by Robert Graves, 468 pgs, 1934
 
  23 votes, 9.0%

 
  20 votes, 7.8%

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, 231 pgs, 1939
 
  16 votes, 6.3%

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, 355 pgs, 1961
 
  15 votes, 5.9%

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler, 216 pgs, 1940
 
  11 votes, 4.3%

 
  11 votes, 4.3%

 
  8 votes, 3.1%

Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, 236 pgs, 1922
 
  7 votes, 2.7%

Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges, 174 pgs, 1944
 
  7 votes, 2.7%

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, 367 pgs, 1984
 
  7 votes, 2.7%

Centennial by James A. Michener, 1056 pgs, 1974
 
  3 votes, 1.2%

255 total votes
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