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Nearly everyone, including the author, was startled last week when the Swedish Academy awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature to the American novelist Toni Morrison. For one thing, the academy has shown a fondness for spreading the prize around geopolitically and linguistically; because the last two winners -- Nadine Gordimer in 1991 and Derek Walcott a year ago -- write in English, this year's winner figured to be one who works in another language. For another, the U.S. authors rumored to be in contention for the prize were Thomas Pynchon and Joyce Carol Oates; Morrison's name did not appear...
Once the surprise wore off, though, the recognition that Morrison is the first African American, and only the eighth woman, to receive literature's most prestigious award, worth $825,000, provoked widespread elation. Inevitably, some people privately suspected that Morrison won because she is a black female. Had the prize gone to Pynchon, of course, the same skeptics would not have assumed it was because he is a white male. No one can understand, and probably laugh at, this double standard better than Morrison. She has dealt with it, triumphantly, throughout her life and through her fiction...
While an instructor at Howard, she married a Jamaican architect named Harold Morrison and had two sons. As the marriage turned sour, Morrison began to seek privacy and consolation in writing, like, as she later remarked, "someone with a dirty habit." One of the stories she produced, about a little black girl who prays to be given blue eyes so that others will find her beautiful, later inspired her first novel...
...pair led Harvard officers Dennis Maloney and Maureen Morrison on a high-speed chase in a stolen Oldsmobile through the Medical School area in Roxbury early Monday morning, Rooney said...
After hearing a radio transmission about thetwo "smash and grab" incidents around 4 a.m.Monday, Maloney and Morrison observed the twosuspects sitting in a the white Oldsmobile onParker St. in Roxbury, Rooney said. The officersthen activated their lights and sirens, and theOldsmobile pulled over...