Inside Edition; PBS, 8/6/19; Crystal Quintero, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
(Inside Edition, Aug. 6, 2019) Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, one of America's greatest writers, has died. The news of her death was announced by her publisher, Alfred A. Knopf. Morrison was the author of 11 novels, including Beloved, Jazz, and Song of Solomon, as well as several works of non-fiction. She wrote of the unique tragedies and triumphs of the African-American experience, in rich, sometimes mystical, prose. Among her many awards, Morrison received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. Morrison was 88 years old.
In Memoriam: Toni Morrison
(PBS) "American Masters" mourns the loss of the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. Inspired to write because no one took a “little black girl” seriously, she published 11 acclaimed novels that illuminated the experiences of black America and inspired generations of writers.
She also received a National Book Critics Circle Award, the Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters by the National Book Foundation, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
In this public television program produced in 1977, "The Originals – The Writer in America," Toni Morrison reads excerpts from her novels The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1973), and Song of Solomon (1977) and speaks candidly about writing while raising two children and working as an editor.
Morrison is the subject of the new documentary film, Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and airing on American Masters in 2020.
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