Morrison, Toni

Cultural  

1. A twentieth-century American novelist and essayist on African-American themes. Among her best-known works are the novels The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved. She won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993.

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Example Sentences

A documentary about Morrison, Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, debuted earlier this summer and featured interviews with the author as well as with Angela Davis and Oprah Winfrey, the latter of whom starred in the 1998 adaptation of Beloved.

From Slate

A generation of black feminists who came to prominence in the nineteen-seventies and eighties—Toni Morrison, Toni Cade Bambara, and Michelle Wallace among them—devoted their work to disentangling the complex of victims who nonetheless victimize, a riddle that remains prevalent enough to complicate things that should be starkly simple.

From The New Yorker

I sought solace in the work of black women writers, among them Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Toni Cade Bambara and Maya Angelou – so much so that my own first book, I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like, would center their voices as the impetus for a culture of black female singularity.

From The Guardian