Nobel Prize Winner: Toni Morrison

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“When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.” From Song of Solomon. [1977]

Ms. Morrison, the first African American (man or woman) to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, won the prestigious award in 1993. Educated at Howard and Cornell universities, Ms. Morrison published her first novel, The Bluest Eye, in 1970.  She has worked as an editor, professor, and a writer, and she has won several other awards and accolades including: the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved, the National Book Foundation Medal, the National Humanities Medal, and the Coretta Scott King Award.

For additional information about Ms. Morrison, see the following sites:

Biography.com 

Nobel Prize website

The library has several works by Ms. Morrison, and a biography of Ms. Morrison, called, Toni Morrison: A Biography; 813.54 L693t

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Sources:

Li, S. (2010). Toni Morrison: A Biography. Denver, CO: Greenwood Press.

O’Brien, G., (Ed.). (2012). Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 18th ed. New York: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 830