Chloe Ardelia Wofford, nota al mondo come Toni Morrison, è stata una autrice, editor, saggista e insegnante di grande successo. È nata il 18 febbraio 1931 e è deceduta l'5 agosto 2019. Morrison è nata a Lorain, Ohio, e i suoi genitori, George e Ramah Wofford, le hanno trasmesso fin da giovane l'amore per le storie e la letteratura. La passione di Morrison per il narrare è rimasta con lei per tutta la vita, portandola a diventare una delle autrici più influenti del XX secolo.
Toni Morrison è stata un'editrice, docente e autrice americana, nota per la sua profonda conoscenza e insegnamento della cultura afroamericana. È stata anche professoressa emerita all'Università di Princeton. Lo stile di scrittura di Morrison è caratterizzato da temi epici, dialoghi vivaci e personaggi afroamericani riccamente dettagliati. I suoi romanzi affrontano spesso questioni sociali complesse, come il razzismo, l'identità e l'eredità della schiavitù. Le personali esperienze di razzismo durante l'infanzia di Morrison a Lorain, Ohio, le hanno fornito una prospettiva unica e una profonda comprensione che ha portato in vita nei suoi romanzi.
I romanzi di Morrison hanno ricevuto numerosi premi e riconoscimenti critici. Il suo romanzo "Amata" ha vinto il Premio Pulitzer per la narrativa nel 1988 ed è stata insignita del Premio Nobel per la letteratura nel 1993 per essere "un'autrice che con romanzi caratterizzati da forza visionaria e importanza poetica, dà vita a un aspetto essenziale della realtà americana". Altri lavori importanti di Morrison includono "L'occhio più azzurro", "Il canto di Salomone" e "Amore". Oltre al suo lavoro come autrice, Morrison è stata anche una editrice e saggista di successo e ha insegnato letteratura e studi razziali in diverse università, tra cui Princeton.
L'impatto di Morrison sulla letteratura americana è incalcolabile e la sua eredità vivrà per le generazioni a venire. È stata nominata una delle "30 donne più potenti d'America" dalla Ladies' Home Journal e ha ricevuto numerosi premi e riconoscimenti per il suo lavoro. I romanzi di Morrison continuano ad essere ampiamente letti e studiati nelle università e nei college, e i suoi contributi al campo della letteratura sono stati celebrati e riconosciuti da studiosi e critici di tutto il mondo.
Who's Got Game? Books
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Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper?
2003
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Who's Got Game? The Lion or the Mouse?
2003
3
Who's Got Game? Three Fables
2003
4
Who's Got Game? Poppy or the Snake?
2004
Romanzi singoli
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1
The Bluest Eye
1970
2
Sula
1973
3
Song of Solomon
1977
4
Tar Baby
1981
5
Beloved
1987
6
Jazz
1992
7
Paradise
1997
8
Love
2003
9
A Mercy
2008
10
Home
2011
11
God Help the Child
2014
Racconti brevi/Novelle
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Titolo
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1
Recitatif
1983
2
Race
2017
Chapbooks
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The Big Box
1999
2
The Book of Mean People
2002
3
The Mirror Or The Glass?
2005
Libri illustrati
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Peeny Butter Fudge
2009
2
Little Cloud and Lady Wind
2010
3
The Tortoise or the Hare
2010
Spettacoli teatrali
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Desdemona
2012
Libri di non-fiction
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Race-Ing Justice, En-Gendering Power
1992
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Playing in the Dark
1992
3
The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993
1994
4
Conversations with Toni Morrison
1994
5
The Dancing Mind
1996
6
Birth of a Nation'hood
1997
7
Memoirs
1999
8
Remember
2004
9
What Moves at the Margin
2008
10
Burn This Book
2009
11
To Die for the People
2009
12
Please, Louise
2013
13
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
2019
14
Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations
2019
15
Goodness and the Literary Imagination
2019
16
The Writer Before the Page: From The Source of Self-Regard
2019
17
The Measure of Our Lives
2019
American Poets Continuum Books
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Good Woman (By: Lucille Clifton)
1987
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Next (By: Lucille Clifton)
1987
3
The City in Which I Love You (By: Li-Young Lee)
1990
4
Quilting (By: Lucille Clifton)
1991
5
What We Carry (By: Dorianne Laux)
1994
6
Red Suitcase (By: Naomi Shihab Nye)
1994
7
The Terrible Stories (By: Lucille Clifton)
1996
8
Fuel (By: Naomi Shihab Nye)
1998
9
Tell Me (By: Kim Addonizio)
2000
10
Blessing the Boats (By: Lucille Clifton)
2000
11
Smoke (By: Dorianne Laux)
2000
12
Book of My Nights (By: Li-Young Lee)
2001
13
Mules of Love (By: Ellen Bass)
2002
14
The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande (By: Ray Gonzalez)
2002
15
Love Song with Motor Vehicles (By: Alan Michael Parker)
2003
16
The Owner of the House (By: Louis Simpson)
2003
17
The Orchard (By: Brigit Pegeen Kelly)
2004
18
The Rooster's Wife (By: Russell Edson)
2005
19
Postcards from the Interior (By: Wyn Cooper)
2005
20
You & Yours (By: Naomi Shihab Nye)
2005
21
Darling Vulgarity (By: Michael Waters)
2006
22
Not for Specialists (By: W.D. Snodgrass)
2006
23
Slope of the Child Everlasting (By: Laurie Kutchins)
2007
24
Sleeping With Houdini (By: Nin Andrews)
2007
25
The Fortieth Day (By: Kazim Ali)
2008
26
Elephants & Butterflies (By: Alan Michael Parker)
2008
27
Voices (By: Lucille Clifton)
2008
28
And (By: Michael Blumenthal)
2009
29
Carpathia (By: Cecilia Woloch)
2009
30
Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone (By: Matthew Shenoda)
2009
31
Sharp Stars (By: Sharon Bryan)
2009
32
Chaos is the New Calm (By: Wyn Cooper)
2010
33
Long Lens (By: Peter Makuck)
2010
34
Burning of the Three Fires (By: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont)
2010
35
Diwata ) (By: Barbara Jane Reyes)
2010
36
Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line (By: Sean Thomas Dougherty)
2010
37
Kingdom Animalia (By: Aracelis Girmay)
2011
38
Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (By: G.C. Waldrep, John Gallaher)
2011
39
Ennui Prophet (By: Christopher Kennedy)
2011
40
Transfer (By: Naomi Shihab Nye)
2011
41
Gospel Night (By: Michael Waters)
2011
42
The Hands of Strangers (By: Janice N. Harrington)
2011
43
True Faith (By: Ira Sadoff)
2012
44
The Reindeer Camps (By: Barton Sutter)
2012
45
To Keep Love Blurry (By: Craig Morgan Teicher)
2012
46
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 (With: Kevin Young, Lucille Clifton, Michael S. Glaser)
2012
47
Theophobia (By: Bruce Beasley)
2012
48
The Book of Goodbyes (By: Jillian Weise)
2013
49
No Need of Sympathy (By: Fleda Brown)
2013
50
Refuge (By: Adrie Kusserow)
2013
51
Birth Marks (By: Jim Daniels)
2013
52
There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat With a Stick (By: Michael Teig)
2013
53
The Keys to the Jail (By: Keetje Kuipers)
2014
54
All You Ask For is Longing (By: Sean Thomas Dougherty)
2014
55
What He Took (By: Wendy Mnookin)
2014
56
Copia (By: Erika Meitner)
2014
57
The Chair (By: Richard Garcia)
2014
58
In a Landscape (By: John Gallaher)
2014
59
Fanny Says (By: Nickole Brown)
2015
60
Testament (By: G.C. Waldrep)
2015
61
Why God is a Woman (By: Nin Andrews)
2015
62
Broken Hallelujahs (By: Sean Thomas Dougherty)
2015
63
Antidote for Night (By: Marsha De LA O)
2015
64
I'm No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance (By: Rick Bursky)
2015
65
Beautiful Wall (By: Ray Gonzalez)
2015
66
The Black Maria (By: Aracelis Girmay)
2016
67
Celestial Joyride (By: Michael Waters)
2016
68
Whereso (By: Karen Volkman)
2016
69
Struggling Times (By: Louis Simpson)
2016
70
The Day's Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech (By: Stephen Dobyns)
2016
71
The End of Pink (By: Kathryn Nuernberger)
2016
72
Primitive (By: Janice N. Harrington)
2016
73
Mandatory Evacuation (By: Makuck Peter)
2016
74
The Trembling Answers (By: Craig Morgan Teicher)
2017
75
Bye-Bye Land (By: Christian Barter)
2017
76
Sky Country (By: Christine Kitano)
2017
77
The Smoke of Horses (By: Charles Rafferty)
2017
78
All Soul Parts Returned (By: Bruce Beasley)
2017
79
The Second O of Sorrow ) (By: Sean Thomas Dougherty)
2018
80
Holy Moly Carry Me (By: Erika Meitner)
2018
81
Clues from the Animal Kingdom ) (By: Christopher Kennedy)
2018
82
Dresses from the Old Country ) (By: Laura Read)
2018
83
In Country (By: Hugh Martin)
2018
84
The Tiny Journalist (By: Naomi Shihab Nye)
2019
85
All Its Charms (By: Keetje Kuipers)
2019
86
Night Angler (By: Geffrey Davis)
2019
87
The Human Half (By: Deborah Brown)
2019
88
Cyborg Detective (By: Jillian Weise)
2019
89
On the Shores of Welcome Home (By: Bruce Weigl)
2019
90
Rue (By: Kathryn Nuernberger)
2020
91
Year of the Dog (By: Deborah Paredez)
2020
92
Let's Become a Ghost Story (By: Rick Bursky)
2020
93
Brand New Spacesuit (By: John Gallaher)
2020
94
Mercy (By: Lucille Clifton)
2020
95
How to Carry Water (By: Lucille Clifton, Aracelis Girmay)
2020
96
Caw (By: Michael Waters)
2020
97
Letters to a Young Brown Girl (By: Barbara Jane Reyes)
2020
98
Mother Country (By: Elana Bell)
2020
99
I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World (By: Kendra DeColo)
2021
100
The Naomi Letters (By: Rachel Mennies)
2021
101
Diamonds (By: Camille Guthrie)
2021
102
Useful Junk (By: Erika Meitner)
2022
103
Field Notes from the Flood Zone (By: Heather Sellers)
2022
104
A Season in Hell with Rimbaud (By: Dustin Pearson)
2022
105
Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (By: Chen Chen)
2022
106
A Tinderbox in Three Acts (By: Cynthia Dewi Oka)
2022
107
Little Mr. Prose Poem (By: Charles Simic, Russell Edson, Craig Morgan Teicher)
2022
108
The Dug-Up Gun Museum ( By: Ben Follows)
2022
The Last Interview Books
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Learning to Live Finally
2005
2
Learning To Live Finally (By: Jacques Derrida)
2005
3
Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
2009
4
Roberto Bolaño (By: Roberto Bolaño)
2009
5
Kurt Vonnegut (By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
2011
6
Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview
2011
7
Jorge Luis Borges (By: Jorge Luis Borges)
2012
8
Jorge Luis Borges
2012
9
Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
2013
10
Hannah Arendt (By: Hannah Arendt)
2013
11
James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations
2014
12
David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words (By: David Foster Wallace)
2014
13
Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview
2014
14
James Baldwin (By: James Baldwin, Quincy Troupe)
2014
15
Gabriel García Márquez
2015
16
Ray Bradbury (By: Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller)
2014
17
Lou Reed
2015
18
Gabriel García Márquez (By: Gabriel García Márquez)
2015
19
Ernest Hemingway
2015
20
Lou Reed (By: Lou Reed)
2015
21
Nora Ephron: The Last Interview
2015
22
Ernest Hemingway (By: Ernest Hemingway)
2015
23
Nora Ephron (By: Nora Ephron)
2015
24
Philip K. Dick
2015
25
Philip K. Dick (By: Philip K. Dick)
2015
26
J. D. Salinger
2016
27
Oliver Sacks
2016
28
J. D. Salinger (By: J.D. Salinger)
2016
29
Oliver Sacks (By: Oliver Sacks)
2016
30
Jane Jacobs
2016
31
David Bowie
2016
32
Jane Jacobs (By: Jane Jacobs)
2016
33
David Bowie (By: David Bowie)
2016
34
Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
2017
35
Christopher Hitchens
2017
36
Martin Luther King, Jr. (By: Martin Luther King Jr.)
2017
37
Hunter S. Thompson
2018
38
Christopher Hitchens (By: Christopher Hitchens)
2017
39
Hunter S. Thompson (By: Hunter S. Thompson)
2018
40
Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
2018
41
Kathy Acker (By: Kathy Acker)
2018
42
Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
2018
43
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
2019
44
Julia Child (By: Julia Child)
2018
45
Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
2019
46
Ursula K. Le Guin (By: Ursula K. Le Guin)
2019
47
Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
2020
48
Prince (By: Prince )
2019
49
Billie Holiday (By: Billie Holiday)
2019
50
Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
2020
51
Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
2021
52
Anthony Bourdain (By: Melville House, Helen Rosner)
2019
53
Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
2021
54
Graham Greene (By: Graham Greene)
2019
55
Toni Morrison
2020
56
Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
2021
57
Frida Kahlo (By: Frida Kahlo)
2020
58
John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
2021
59
Marilyn Monroe (By: Melville House, Sady Doyle)
2020
60
Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
2022
61
Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
2022
62
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (By: Melville House)
2020
63
bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
2023
64
Shirley Chisholm (By: Shirley Chisholm)
2021
65
Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
2023
66
The Last Interview (By: Fred Rogers)
2021
67
Fred Rogers (By: Fred Rogers)
2021
68
Johnny Cash (By: Johnny Cash)
2021
69
John Lewis (By: Melville House)
2021
70
Janet Malcolm (By: Melville House)
2022
71
Diego Maradona ( By: Melville House)
2022
72
Kurt Cobain ( By: Melville House)
2022
73
Bell Hooks (By: bell hooks)
2023
74
Octavia E. Butler (By: Melville House)
2023
The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures Books
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Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition
1941
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Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition (By: Siegfried Giedion)
1941
3
Sincerity and Authenticity
1972
4
i: Six Nonlectures (By: E.E. Cummings)
1953
5
The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance
1973
6
Sincerity and Authenticity (By: Lionel Trilling)
1972
7
The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance (By: Northrop Frye)
1973
8
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
1994
9
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods ( By: Umberto Eco)
1994
10
The Romantic Generation
1995
11
The Romantic Generation (By: Charles Rosen)
1995
12
Lessons of the Masters
2003
13
Lessons of the Masters (By: George Steiner)
2003
14
Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye (By: Linda Nochlin)
2006
15
The Origin of Others
2016
The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures Books
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1
The American Newness ( By: Irving Howe)
1986
2
Highbrow/Lowbrow (By: Lawrence W. Levine)
1988
3
Revolutions (By: David Brion Davis)
1990
4
Playing in the Dark
1992
5
The Southern Tradition (By: Eugene D. Genovese)
1994
6
Writing Was Everything (By: Alfred Kazin)
1998
7
The Dissent of the Governed (By: Stephen L. Carter)
1998
8
Achieving Our Country (By: Richard M. Rorty)
1999
9
The Real American Dream (By: Andrew Delbanco)
1999
10
To Be the Poet (By: Maxine Hong Kingston)
2002
11
Reporting the Universe ( By: E.L. Doctorow)
2003
12
Circles and Lines (By: John Putnam Demos)
2004
13
Architecture as Signs and Systems (By: Robert Venturi)
2004
14
Reshaping the Work-Family Debate (By: Joan C. Williams)
2010
15
Tiger Writing ( By: Gish Jen)
2013
16
Tiger Writing (By: Gish Jen)
2013
17
Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations (By: Greil Marcus)
2015
18
Just a Journalist (By: Linda Greenhouse)
2017
Toni Morrison Anthologies
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Anno
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1
Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir
1987
2
Go the Way Your Blood Beats
1996
3
The Good Parts
2000
4
Black Satin
2004
5
Women of Color Pray
2012
6
Writers: Their Lives and Works
2018
7
On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library