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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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Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson Case
1997
1994
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2013
1987
Jazz, The Bluest Eye,Song of Solomon, Beloved, Tar Baby, A Mercy, Sula, Paradise
2002
1998
The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
2020
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2009
2010
1977
2017
1998
2020
2004
2018
Reflections on the American Canon
2026
Song of Solomon / Beloved / Jazz
1998
2015
1987
The Journey to School Integration
2004
Harvard's 95th Ingersoll Lecture with Essays on Morrison's Moral and Religious Vision
2019
1987
1994
1992
The Afro-American Presence in American Literature
1988
2010
2005
1994
Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
1992
2002
Vintage Minis
2017
Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
2019
Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality
1992
A Gathering of Wisdom
2019
1983
Selected Nonfiction
2008
2012