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TONI MORRISON (1931- )
Her
fiction is noted for its spare poetic language, emotional intensity, and sensitive
observation of life. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), is the story of a girl ruined by a
racist society and its violence. Song of Solomon (1977; National Book Award) established
her as one of America's leading novelists. It concerns a middle-class man who achieves
self-knowledge through the discovery of his rural black heritage. Her later fiction includes
Beloved (1987; Pulitzer), a powerful account of the legacy of slavery, and Jazz (1992), a
tale of love and murder set in Harlem in the 1920s. Morrison was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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