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Toni Morrison


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

Died
August 05, 2019

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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
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Average rating: 4.03 · 1,286,013 ratings · 96,483 reviews · 240 distinct worksSimilar authors
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)

3.98 avg rating — 483,654 ratings — published 1987 — 373 editions
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The Bluest Eye

4.13 avg rating — 294,637 ratings — published 1970 — 213 editions
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Song of Solomon

4.16 avg rating — 125,772 ratings — published 1977 — 5 editions
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Sula

4.05 avg rating — 120,449 ratings — published 1973 — 4 editions
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Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)

3.90 avg rating — 37,042 ratings — published 1992
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Recitatif

4.30 avg rating — 29,798 ratings — published 1983 — 44 editions
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A Mercy

3.76 avg rating — 32,369 ratings — published 2008 — 40 editions
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God Help the Child

3.78 avg rating — 32,047 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions
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Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3)

3.86 avg rating — 28,791 ratings — published 1997 — 49 editions
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Home

3.83 avg rating — 27,693 ratings — published 2012 — 3 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

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
Toni Morrison, Beloved

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