Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye  Tags: toni_morrison bluest_eye african_american_author american_literature american_women_authors essayist  

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Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in 1931 in Lorain, Ohio. Her mother's family had come to Ohio from Alabama via Kentucky, and her father had migrated from Georgia. Morrison grew up with a love of literature and received her undergraduate degree from Howard University. She received a master's degree from Cornell University, completing a thesis on William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf. Afterward, she taught at Texas Southern University and then at Howard, in Washington, D.C., where she met Harold Morrison, an architect from Jamaica. The marriage lasted six years, and Morrison gave birth to two sons. She and her husband divorced while she was pregnant with her second son, and she returned to Lorain to give birth. She then moved to New York and became an editor at Random House, specializing in black fiction. During this difficult and somewhat lonely time, she began working on her first novel, The Bluest Eye, which was published in 1970.

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 Children's literature (with Slade Morrison) 

·     The Big Box (2002)

·     The Book of Mean People (2002)  

Short stories

·     "Recitatif" (1983)  

Plays

·     Dreaming Emmett (performed 1986)  

Libretti

·     Margaret Garner (first performed May 2005)

Non-fiction

·     The Black Book (1974)

·     Birth of a Nation'hood (co-editor) (1997)

·     Playing in the Dark (1992)

·     Remember:The Journey to School Integration (April 2004)

Articles

·     "This Amazing, Troubling Book" (An analysis of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain)

Novels

·     The Bluest Eye (1970; ISBN 0-452-28706-5)

·     Sula (1974; ISBN 1-4000-3343-8)

·     Song of Solomon (1977; ISBN 1-4000-3342-X)

·     Tar Baby (1981; ISBN 1-4000-3344-6)

·     Beloved (1987; ISBN 1-4000-3341-1)

·     Jazz (1992; ISBN 1-4000-7621-8)

·     Paradise (1999; ISBN 0-679-43374-0)

·     Love (2003; ISBN 0-375-40944-0)

·     A Mercy (2008)