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Remembering Toni Morrison, An Iconic American Author

Video        NYT News        7 August 2019

 

The author Toni Morrison

has died at the age of 88.

 

She was the first African-American woman

to win the Nobel Prize in Literature

and best known for her nuanced discussion

of race in America.

 

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlJl3vjs-KI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why Toni Morrison Keeps Writing

NYT    14 April 2015

 

 

 

 

Why Toni Morrison Keeps Writing

Video        The New York Times        14 April 2015

 

Toni Morrison continues to hone her craft,

even though she sits comfortably

as one of the greatest authors in American history.

 

Here she reads from her forthcoming novel,

“God Help the Child.”

 

Produced by: Colin Archdeacon

Read the story here: http://nyti.ms/1PDPpEG

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjdyX2wnwdY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ms. Morrison in 2008,

when she published her novel “A Mercy,”

which dealt with slavery and servitude

in the 17th century.

 

Photograph: Damon Winter

The New York Times

 

Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88

NYT

Aug. 6, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/
books/toni-morrison-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Morrison in 1970,

during her time as an editor at Random House.

 

Photograph: Bernard Gotfryd

Getty Images

 

The Radical Vision of Toni Morrison

 

At 84, she sits comfortably

as one of the greatest authors in American history,

even as her uncompromising dream for black literature

seems farther away than ever.

NYT

APRIL 8, 2015

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/
magazine/the-radical-vision-of-toni-morrison.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Toni Morrison    1931-2019

 

born Chloe Ardelia Wofford

 

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
toni-morrison
 

http://www.npr.org/books/authors/137940416/
toni-morrison

https://www.theguardian.com/books/
tonimorrison

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/30/
1171897684/toni-morrisons-diary-entries-early-drafts-and-letters-
are-on-display-at-princeto

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/
t-magazine/toni-morrison-jazz.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/01/
1077198351/recitatif-toni-morrison-short-story

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/
toni-morrisons-the-bluest-eye-at-50-a-novel-that-speaks-to-our-times

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/mar/05/
toni-morrison-the-pieces-i-am-review-

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/11/
toni-morrison-tributes-leading-writers-tracy-k-smith

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/11/
toni-morrison-remembered-by-edouard-louis

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/10/
toni-morrison-bernardine-evaristo-on-our-side

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/08/
toni-morrison-rememory-essay

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/07/
books/toni-morrison-death-remembrance.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/07/
toni-morrison-stories-shaped-mixed-race-girl-write

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/07/
toni-morrison-farewell-to-americas-greatest-writer-we-all-owe-her-so-much

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/07/
now-her-words-are-needed-most-readers-remember-toni-morrison

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/06/
rest-toni-morrison-you-were-magnificent-leading-writers

 

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=DlJl3vjs-KI - NYT - 7 August 2019

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/
opinion/tracy-smith-toni-morrison.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/06/
toni-morrison-author-life-in-quotes

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/06/
toni-morrison-author-and-pulitzer-winner-dies-aged-88

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/
books/toni-morrison-dead.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/06/
748810955/author-tayari-jones-shares-an-appreciation-of-toni-morrison

 

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/06/
748646959/toni-morrison-remembered-by-poet-kwame-alexander

 

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/06/
542391535/toni-morrison-whose-soaring-novels-were-rooted-in-black-lives-dies-at-88

 

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/20/
733373081/toni-morrison-the-pieces-i-am-a-defiant-tour-of-a-beloved-author-s-life-work

 

 

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/05/
primo-levi-holocaust-survivor-the-complete-works

 

http://www.npr.org/2015/08/24/
434132724/i-regret-everything-toni-morrison-looks-back-on-her-personal-life

 

http://www.npr.org/2015/04/20/
400394947/i-regret-everything-toni-morrison-looks-back-on-her-personal-life

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/
books/review-in-toni-morrisons-god-help-the-child-adults-
are-hobbled-by-the-pain-of-the-past.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/
books/review/toni-morrisons-god-help-the-child.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/
magazine/the-radical-vision-of-toni-morrison.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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