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Table of contents
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Life
• Time period • Fame • Career • Works • Awards • Fun Facts |
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Life/Career
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• Born February 18, 1931 (82 Today) in Lorain, Ohio, United States
• Education: • Lorain High School • Howard University-Bachelor of Arts degree in English (1949-1953) • Cornell University- Master of Arts degree in English (1953-1955) • Start of Career: • English instructor at Texas Southern University (1955-1957) • English instructor at Howard University (1957-1963) • Toni married to Jamaican-born Harold Morrison, an architect and worker at Howard University. They had two sons together. (1958) • Morrison divorced Harold, who was known to be troubled (1964) • Morrison moved to Syracuse, New York to work as a textbook editor and supported her two sons (1964) • Morrison moves to New York City to work as an editor for Random House(1968) |
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Life/Career
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Morrison gains national attention as she writes five novels and started to
gain a notable amount of awards. (1970-1982) • Morrison left Random House to pursue teaching positions and to put more time into writing. (1983) • Instructor at University of Albany and State University of New York (1984- 1989) • Professor at Syracuse University (1988) • Lecturer at University of Michigan (1988) • Created the Toni Morrison society (1993) • Instructor at Princeton University (1989-2006) • Today she is a member of the editorial board of The Nation magazine. |
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Time Period
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1931-present
• Morrison was born in the time of The Great Depression • During the 20th century, media and telecommunications made the worlds knowledge much more known |
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Claim to fame
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Morrison jumped onto the scene by publishing The Bluest eye in 1970.
• Her next novel Sula received more attention as it was nominated for a American Book Award. • In 1987 Morrison published Beloved, which received the most attention and gained her a Pulitzer prize for fiction |
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Works
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Novels:
• The Bluest Eye (1970) PIC • Song of Solomon (1977) PIC • Beloved (1987) PIC • Sula (1974) • Tar baby (1981) • Jazz (1992) • Paradise (1997) • Love (2003) • A Mercy (2008) • Home (2012) • Children's literature • The Big Box (1999) • The Book of Mean People (2002) • Peeny Butter Fudge (2009) |
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Works
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• Short fiction
• Recitaif (1983) • Plays Dreaming Emmett (1986) • Libretti Margaret Garner (2005) • Desdemona (2011) • Non-fiction • The Black Book (1974) • Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992) |
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Awards and Accomplishments
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• 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Beloved(PIC right)
• 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature(PIC Bottom) • 2012 Presidential Medal of Freedom • Morrison has won nearly ever book prize |
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Fun Facts
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Although other novels have received more prizes, sold more copies
and it received better reviews, Morrison called her 2003 novel Love perfect and believed it to be her best book. • Morrison watches Court TV and soap operas • Morrison reads magazines and newspapers from the time and place where her novels are set to give herself a feel for the location • In 1993, Morrison's house burned to the ground in an accidental fire on Christmas Day • In 2000, The Bluest Eye was chosen as a selection for Oprah's Book Club. • As of 2011 her net worth is $24 million |
