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Few contemporary novelists have achieved the venerated status of Toni Morrison. She has written adored modern classics like Beloved and Song of Solomon that daringly blend the supernatural and the natural with an uncommonly poetic eloquence. She is a recipient of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Noble Prize for Literature, and is truly one of America s most gifted storytellers.
"Toni Morrisono s fisrt two books - The Bluest Eye with the purity of its terrors and Sula with its dense poetry and the depth of its probing into a small circle of lives - were strong novels. Yet, firm as they both were in achievement and promise, they didn't fully forecast her new book, Song Of Solomon.... ...Toni Morrison has earned attention and praise. Few Americans know, and can say, more than she has in this wise and spacious novel.,"- Books of the Century, The New York Times, September, 1977
Chloe Anthony Wofford chose to publish her first novel under the name Toni Morrison because she believed that Toni was easier to pronounce than Chloe. Morrison later regretted assuming the nom de plume. In 1986, the first production of Morrison's sole play Dreaming Emmett was staged. The play was based on the story of Emmett Till, a black teen murdered by racists in 1955. Morrison's prestigious status is not limited to her revered novels or her multitude of awards. She also holds a chair at Princeton University.
Toni Morrison's third novel, Song of Solomon, established her as a major American writer. The story of a Black man's search for his identity through a discovery of his family history, it became a bestseller and drew praise from readers and critics when it was published in 1977. The novel has been especially admired for the beauty of its language and its grounding of universal themes in the particularity of the African-American experience, as well as for its use of folklore.
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