![]() ![]() (Listen to Toni Morrison and Angela Davis in conversation on this podcast episode found at the bottom of this post. Toni Morrison is an American treasure, and we'll help you figure out where to start with her work. Across her oeuvre, she has depicted and crystallized the Black experience throughout American history, from colonial Virginia to slavery to the Korean War. ![]() More books like Beloved may be found by selecting the categories. Garner drowned in a shipwreck as she was being brought back to slavery. ![]() Her writing is flat-out gorgeous, mixing poetic and vernacular voices to create prose that sounds as lush as the vivid imagery it describes. Toni Morrison’s masterpiece of a novel Beloved is based upon the true story of Margaret Garner, a fugitive slave from Kentucky, killed one of her children rather than permit her to be returned to slavery. In addition to a healthy body of short fiction, nonfiction, and theatre, Morrison has written 11 novels over the course of her near-50 year career, and has received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Nobel Prize in Literature, PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.Īll this to say, you should definitely be reading Toni Morrison. February 18 marks the birthday of Toni Morrison, one of the most highly celebrated American novelists of the latter 20th century and an icon of Black literature and thought. ![]()
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