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Toni Morrison


Born
in Lorain, Ohio, The United States
February 18, 1931

Died
August 05, 2019

Website

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Race Studies

Influences
James Baldwin, William Faulkner, Doris Lessing, Herman Melville


Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford) was an American author, editor, and professor who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature for being an author "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality."

Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed African American characters; among the best known are her novels The Bluest Eye , Song of Solomon , and Beloved , which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. In 2001 she was named one of "The 30 Most Powerful Women in America" by Ladies' Home Journal.

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Average rating: 4.02 · 1,191,411 ratings · 83,614 reviews · 228 distinct works • Similar authors
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
3.96 avg rating — 453,990 ratings — published 1987 — 357 editions
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The Bluest Eye
4.12 avg rating — 267,981 ratings — published 1970 — 206 editions
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Song of Solomon
4.14 avg rating — 117,898 ratings — published 1977 — 191 editions
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Sula
4.04 avg rating — 107,399 ratings — published 1973 — 112 editions
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Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)
3.89 avg rating — 34,017 ratings — published 1992 — 132 editions
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God Help the Child
3.78 avg rating — 30,805 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions
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A Mercy
3.76 avg rating — 30,518 ratings — published 2008 — 101 editions
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Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3)
3.86 avg rating — 27,716 ratings — published 1997 — 103 editions
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Recitatif
4.30 avg rating — 24,701 ratings — published 1983 — 40 editions
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Home
3.82 avg rating — 26,230 ratings — published 2012 — 97 editions
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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison
tags: books, writing
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“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
tags: burdens, empowerment, flying, freedom, unburdening, weight
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“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved
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The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (pub 1910, 209 pp, last read February 2015)
 
  82 votes, 26.3%

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (pub 1869, 667 pp, last read April 2016)
 
  70 votes, 22.4%

Beloved by Toni Morrison (pub 1987, 324 pp, last read March 2017)
 
  53 votes, 17.0%

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo (pub 1831, 510 pp, last read April 2016)
 
  48 votes, 15.4%

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (pub 1979, 287 pp, last read May 2019)
 
  35 votes, 11.2%

Despair by Vladimir Nabokov (pub 1934, 212 pp, last read Sept. 2013)
 
  24 votes, 7.7%

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