Here are some notable facts about Morrison’s process and the novel’s legacy. All the awards aside, Beloved is a testament to the horrors of slavery, with its narrative of suffering and repressed memory and its dedication to the more than 60 million who died in bondage. The book won the Pulitzer Prize and was a key factor in the decision to award Morrison the Nobel Prize in 1993. In 1955, she earned a master's degree in American Literature from Cornell University.Toni Morrison-who was born on February 18, 1931, and passed away on August 5, 2019-made a name for herself with The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Song of Solomon, but it wasn’t until 1987’s Beloved, about a runaway slave haunted by the death of her infant daughter, that her legacy was secured. Morrison graduated from Howard University in 1953 with a B.A. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987) she gained worldwide recognition when she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford FebruAugust 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor. First Edition, Second printing before publication. This book is considered by many to be a great American novel and is rich with beautiful language and passion. It concerns a runaway slave who risked death, a woman of "iron eyes and backbone to match" who lives ina small house with her daughter Denver, her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, and a disturbing, mesmerizing inruder who calls herself Beloved. This post-Civil War novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Morrison and considered her finest work, led to her being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, SIGNED BY TONI MORRISON ON THE TITLE-PAGE. A very fine copy very well preserved, both jacket and book in very pleasing condition. 8vo, publisher's original cream coloured cloth, the spine and upper cover decorated and lettered in silver grey, in the original colour printed dustjacket.
First Edition, First Printing Signed by the author Toni Morrison, on the title-page.
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