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MORRISON - TONI

MORRISON - TONI (b. 1931-2019) was an American novelist, essayist, editor, and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University.  Among her many honors, she was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature for "novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, giv[ing] life to an essential aspect of American reality."

 

The central theme in her work is the black American experience; in an unjust society, her characters struggle to find themselves and their cultural identity.  Her use of fantasy, her sinuous poetic style, and her rich interweaving of the mythic gave her stories great strength and texture

 


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