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Toni Morrison

Born

in Lorain, Ohio, The United States

February 18, 1931

Died

August 05, 2019

Website

https://www.tonimorrisonsociety.org/

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Race Studies

Influences

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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 ...more

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Average rating: 4.03 · 1,309,568 ratings · 99,461 reviews · 239 distinct works • Similar authors

	Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 490,632 ratings — published 1987 — 373 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bluest Eye 4.13 avg rating — 301,070 ratings — published 1970 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Song of Solomon 4.16 avg rating — 127,569 ratings — published 1977 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sula 4.05 avg rating — 123,714 ratings — published 1973 — 122 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2) 3.90 avg rating — 37,811 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Recitatif 4.29 avg rating — 31,329 ratings — published 1983 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Mercy 3.77 avg rating — 32,803 ratings — published 2008 — 108 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God Help the Child 3.78 avg rating — 32,358 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3) 3.86 avg rating — 29,068 ratings — published 1997 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Home 3.83 avg rating — 28,114 ratings — published 2012 — 99 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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December 2015 New School Classics Group Read

1908, Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, 320 pages

24 votes, 18.5%

1972, Watership Down by Richard Adams, 481 pages

17 votes, 13.1%

1969, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, 304 pages

15 votes, 11.5%

1920, This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 288 pages

13 votes, 10.0%

1966, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 360 pages

11 votes, 8.5%

1940, The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene, 222 pages

7 votes, 5.4%

1987, Beloved by Toni Morrison, 324 pages

6 votes, 4.6%

1963, The Collector by John Fowles, 283 pages

6 votes, 4.6%

1950, A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute, 359 pages

6 votes, 4.6%

1982, The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, 544 pages

5 votes, 3.8%

1974, Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, 144 pages

5 votes, 3.8%

1995, The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, 216 pages

4 votes, 3.1%

1935, BUtterfield 8 by John O'Hara, 256 pages

4 votes, 3.1%

1988, A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark, 192 pages

3 votes, 2.3%

1986, Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino, 288 pages

2 votes, 1.5%

1937, Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato, 256 pages

1 vote, 0.8%

1974, The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier, 267 pages

1 vote, 0.8%

130 total votes

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