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Toni Morrison
“[Toni Morrison] may be the last classic American writer, squarely in the tradition of Poe, Melville, Twain and Faulkner.”
— Newsweek
“In the first ranks of our living novelists.”
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature.”
— The New York Review of Books
“She is the best writer in America.”
—John Leonard, National Public Radio
“[Toni Morrison] has moved from strength to strength until she has reached the distinction of being beyond comparison.”
— Entertainment Weekly
“Morrison is one of the most exciting living American writers.”
— The Kansas City Star
“Toni Morrison has made herself into the D. H. Lawrence of the black psyche, transforming individuals into forces, idiosyncrasy into inevitability.”
— New York
“Morrison is perhaps the finest novelist of our time.”
— Vogue
“Toni Morrison is one of the finest writers in America today.”
— Louisville Courier-Journal
Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.
ALSO BY TONI MORRISON
FICTION
God Help the Child
Home
A Mercy
Love
Paradise
Jazz
Beloved
Tar Baby
Song of Solomon
Sula
NONFICTION
The Source of Self-Regard
The Dancing Mind
Playing in the Dark:
Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
The Origin of Others