Word: toni
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Then there is the grandeur," said Toni Morrison. Sure, the sentence is just one of many from Chapter One of Morrison's new novel Paradise, read by the author to an audience of several hundred in Faneuil Hall last Wednesday night. This particular phrase is unique, though, because through it the novelist perfectly encapsulated the listener's experience of her own reading...
...interests and niches. Yet we hold to the faith that intelligent people are curious about what's new in all sorts of fields, from politics to art, religion to technology. Just like us, they can be interested in both Saddam Hussein and Monica Lewinsky, Andrew Grove and Princess Diana, Toni Morrison and Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, Ken Starr and Matt Damon...
...seemed. In 1975, the 25-year-old Gayl stunned the literary world with Corregidora, a fiercely written novel about incest, slavery and abuse. Jones mined the same brutal field in Eva's Man, in which the protagonist bites off a man's penis. Toni Morrison was her editor; John Updike praised her work. Another book followed. And at just 26, she was tenured at the University of Michigan. But after she arrived at the university, Gayl got involved with Bob, then known as Bob Higgins. (He would later take her name.) In 1983, Bob spewed invectives and brandished...
...here for one reason and one reason only--to listen to one of the last historical figures of this time. The latter part of this age, this literary age, will be Toni Morrison," West proclaimed...
...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...