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Verdelle, A. J.

Summary: "The award-winning author of The Good Negress shares invaluable insights on the precarious journey toward creativity that is the writer's life, and tells the compelling story of her relationship with Toni Morrison, painting an illuminating portrait of this towering yet enigmatic cultural icon. With the publication of her debut novel The Good Negress in 1995, A. J. Verdelle became an overnight...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VERDELLE, A.J. VER

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B VERDELLE VER

Morrison, Toni

Summary: America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 MOR

Morrison, Toni

Summary: "This inspirational book juxtaposes quotations, one to a page, drawn from Toni Morrison's entire body of work, both fiction and nonfiction--from The Bluest Eye to God Help the Child, from Playing in the Dark to The Source of Self-Regard--to tell a story of self-actualization. It aims to evoke the totality of Toni Morrison's literary vision. Its sequence of flashes of revelation--remarkable for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 MOR

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: An artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the acclaimed novelist. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to '70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics, and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TON

Bennett, Juda

Summary: "What is a book club but an excuse to talk to friends? The Toni Morrison Book Club brings that experience to life by telling the story of four friends who turn to Toni Morrison as they search for meaning in their lives. In this startling group memoir, thewriters--black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American born--allow Morrison's words, like music, to make them feel, confess, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Wisconsin Press 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 374 BEN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 734 BEN

Weatherford, Carole Boston

Summary: How do you tell a story? Before Toni Morrison was a Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel Prize–winning author, she was Chloe Ardelia Wofford, a little girl in Ohio who was both the only Black child in her first-grade classroom and the only student who was able to read. This is the true story of how that young girl learned from her upbringing, surrounded herself with stories, and made a tremendous...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MOR

Weinstein, Arnold L.

Summary: "Great art discovers for us who we are," writes literature professor and critic Weinstein in this book about how we can better uncover and understand our own stories by reading five major modern writers who "reinvent the novel by exploding our sense of what we are." He invites us to discover our perceptions, our dreams, our own elusive, deepest stories in these masterpieces of modernist...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823 WEI

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