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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: 4.04 · 1,391,490 ratings · 112,290 reviews · 190 distinct works • Similar authors

	Beloved 3.99 avg rating — 514,740 ratings — published 1987 — 19 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 4.14 avg rating — 323,897 ratings — published 1970 — 74 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 4.17 avg rating — 135,166 ratings — published 1977 — 2 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 4.07 avg rating — 135,387 ratings — published 1973 — 104 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) 3.91 avg rating — 41,050 ratings — published 1992 — 112 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 — 35,532 ratings — published 1983 — 43 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 — 34,296 ratings — published 2008 — 88 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 3.79 avg rating — 33,370 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3) 3.87 avg rating — 30,090 ratings — published 1997 — 86 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 3.84 avg rating — 29,462 ratings — published 2012 — 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

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Beloved Trilogy (3 books)
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November 2015 New School Classics Group Read

1982, Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally, 429 pages

25 votes, 17.9%

1988, Matilda by Roald Dahl, 240 pages

22 votes, 15.7%

1997, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, 434 pages

15 votes, 10.7%

1930, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 267 pages

14 votes, 10.0%

1988, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, 197 pages

13 votes, 9.3%

1987, Beloved by Toni Morrison, 324 pages

11 votes, 7.9%

1932, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 233 pages

8 votes, 5.7%

1957, The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino, 217 pages

7 votes, 5.0%

1989, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, 288 pages

6 votes, 4.3%

1959, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, 160 pages

4 votes, 2.9%

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

4 votes, 2.9%

1949, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 342 pages

3 votes, 2.1%

1932, The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth, 352 pages

3 votes, 2.1%

1928, Quicksand by Nella Larsen, 192 pages

2 votes, 1.4%

1939, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, 243 pages

2 votes, 1.4%

1931, The Road Back by Erich Maria Remarque, 352 pages

1 vote, 0.7%

1997, Out by Natsuo Kirino, 400 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

1974, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, 288 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

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