Toni Morrison

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
# Titolo Anno
1 Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? 2003
2 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
# Titolo Anno
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
# Titolo Anno
1 Recitatif 1983
2 Race 2017
Chapbooks
# Titolo Anno
1 The Big Box 1999
2 The Book of Mean People 2002
3 The Mirror Or The Glass? 2005
Libri illustrati
# Titolo Anno
1 Peeny Butter Fudge 2009
2 Little Cloud and Lady Wind 2010
3 The Tortoise or the Hare 2010
Spettacoli teatrali
# Titolo Anno
1 Desdemona 2012
Libri di non-fiction
# Titolo Anno
1 Race-Ing Justice, En-Gendering Power 1992
2 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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1 Good Woman (By: Lucille Clifton) 1987
2 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
# Titolo Anno
1 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
# Titolo Anno
1 Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition 1941
2 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
# Titolo Anno
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
# Titolo Anno
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 2021