Word: morrison
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...They shot the white girl first...." Morrison narrated her story, which began deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, where men from the small town of Ruby--in defense of the "one all-black town worth the pain"--assault the nearby town of Convent and the women...
Paradise,published by Alfred O. Knopf, is Morrison's first novel since she won the Nobel Prize in 1993, and her seventh in a writing career that has included novels such asBeloved, Sula,andSong of Solomon.Morrison, a native of Lorain, Ohio, is currently a professor at Princeton, but has strong personal friendships with Gates and West...
...introductory speech, West reminisced about the time he went to Sweden to see Morrison receive her Nobel Prize...
...Harvard's W.E.B. DuBois Institute, directed by Gates, that sponsored Morrison's visit, along with the Harvard Book Store and the Cambridge Public Library...
...wanted to get there early because it was one of those few rare moments to actually see Toni Morrison read. I didn't want to miss it," Chong said...