When she was 2 years old, her family’s landlord set their home on fire. In 2007, Lorain opened an elementary school named after Morrison.

They would never have a sign, but … they’d been told ‘put them all over here.’” Her mother would make sure to sit somewhere else.) Morrison didn’t encounter racially segregated restaurants until she went to college in Washington, D.C. But what they did have were understandings.” Morrison’s mother made it a point to check out every new spot opening in town, “just to see where the ushers were directing people. (Which doesn’t mean that racism didn’t exist there-as Morrison explained in an interview, “they never had the laws as they had in other parts of the country. Though she was born before the Civil Rights Movement, Morrison grew up around people of different races in the integrated town of Lorain, Ohio, where her father, George Wofford, eventually moved after the traumatic experience of seeing two Black men lynched in his Georgia neighborhood when he was a teen. FrankRamspott/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images In 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.A map of Ohio showing Lorain.

She received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. About the Author: TONI MORRISON-who died in 2019-wrote eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). This beautifully designed slipcase will make the perfect holiday and perennial gift. With Song of Solomon, Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as she follows Milkman Dead from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, introducing an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world. Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. In The New York Times bestselling novel, The Bluest Eye, Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty and yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes, that she believes will allow her to finally fit in. This spellbinding novel tells the story of Sethe, a former slave who escapes to Ohio, but eighteen years later is still not free.

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, Beloved transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. A box set of Toni Morrison's principal works, featuring The Bluest Eye (her first novel), Beloved (Pulitzer Prize winner), and Song of Solomon (National Book Critics Award winner).

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