Toni Morrison

What she did

Wrote novels including The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.

Impact and significance

Her fiction placed Black people's interior lives at the centre of American literature, examining how slavery, racism and family history shape memory and relationships.

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Works recorded in the archive

• The Bluest Eye (1970)
• Song of Solomon (1977)
• Beloved (1987)
• Nobel Prize in Literature (1993)

Sources and access

• Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize biographical record
• Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.Bibliographic reference. Consult the named edition through a library or publisher.
• Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.Bibliographic reference. Consult the named edition through a library or publisher.

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