toni morrison

     

She was a senior editor at Random House while she was writing the novel "Beloved"

Trivia about toni morrison

  • Margaret Atwood reviewed this woman's "Beloved" for the New York Times & called it "another triumph"
  • Thanks to Oprah, her 1970 novel "The Bluest Eye" was a bestseller in 2000
  • Oprah made this author's "Beloved" into a movie & chose her "Paradise" for the book club
  • The heroine of this "Beloved" author's first novel, "The Bluest Eye", wishes her eyes were blue
  • Born in Lorain, Ohio in 1931, this African-American woman won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993
  • This "Beloved" author was the first African-American to win a Nobel Prize for Literature
  • "Song Of Solomon" was the first of her novels to have a male protagonist
  • Macon Dead III, also known as Milkman, is the protagonist of her novel "Song of Solomon"
  • Milkman is the son of Ruth & Macon Dead in her novel "Song of Solomon"
  • This "Beloved" author was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in 1931
  • This "Beloved" author set her latest novel "Paradise" in the fictional all-black town of Ruby, Oklahoma
  • In 1988 this novelist won a Pulitzer Prize for her book "Beloved"
  • This author of "Jazz" & "Tar Baby" was the first black American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from outside of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL.) A vision of little scraps of Sunday dresses in this author's "Song of Solomon" refers to the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church
  • When featured on "Oprah", her 1977 novel "Song of Solomon" returned to the bestseller list in 1996
  • Books by this Nobel Prize winner include "Love", "Beloved" & "Tar Baby"
  • While an editor for Random House books, she wrote her first novel, "The Bluest Eye"
  • "Sula", in 2002, was the fourth book by this author to be selected
  • In 1977 her "Song of Solomon" became the first Book-of-the-Month Club selection by a black author in 37 years
  • In 2001, at the New York Public Library, Oprah & Jessye Norman helped pay tribute to this author on her 70th birthday
  • She taught at Howard University before writing "Song of Solomon"
  • "The Bluest Eye"(1970)
  • A graduate of Howard University, she won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993
  • In her "Song of Solomon", Guitar tells Milkman that he can never be an egg because eggs are white & fragile