Name/TitleToni Morrison: The Nobel Lecture in Literature
MakerMorrison, Toni
Maker RoleAuthor
About this objectSmall hardback book with red covers titled 'Toni Morrison: The Nobel Lecture in Literature', signed by the author. The lecture and speech of acceptance upon the award was delivered in Stockholm on 7th December 1993.
Contains a ticket to see A Tribute to Toni Morrison at Charlotte Square Gardens as part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, 24th August 2019.
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, board and paper
MeasurementsH: 82 x W: 108 x D: 8 mm (book)
H: 115 x W: 75 mm (ticket)
Date Made1993
Place MadeUSA, New York NY
PublisherChatto & Windus
Publication Date1994
Publication PlaceEngland, London
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison:
Chloe Anthony Wofford "Toni" Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019) was an American novelist and editor. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987).
Born and raised in Lorain, Ohio, Morrison graduated from Howard University in 1953 with a B.A. in English. Morrison earned a master's degree in American Literature from Cornell University in 1955. In 1957 she returned to Howard University, was married, and had two children before divorcing in 1964. Morrison became the first Black female editor for fiction at Random House in New York City in the late 1960s. She developed her own reputation as an author in the 1970s and '80s. Her novel Beloved was made into a film in 1998. Morrison's works are praised for addressing the harsh consequences of racism in the United States and the Black American experience.
The National Endowment for the Humanities selected Morrison for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities, in 1996. She was honored with the National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters the same year. President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on May 29, 2012. She received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2016. Morrison was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2020 [continues].
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's writing & literature
Subject and Association KeywordsBlack women writers
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeBook
ISBN/ISSN0-7011-6235-X
Object numberGWL-2026-30-2
Spine LabelTONI MORRISON ~ THE NOBEL LECTURE IN LITERATURE, 1993 ~ C&W
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved