Toni Morrison Biography

Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1988 for "Beloved". "Beloved" was adapted into a film of the same name (starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover) in 1998. Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. In 1996, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected her for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities. She was also honored with the 1996 National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Morrison was commissioned to write the libretto for a new opera, Margaret Garner, first performed in 2005. On May 29, 2012, Morrison received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Selected works:

Novels:

• The Bluest Eye. 1970. ISBN 0-452-28706-5.
• Sula. 1973. 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. 1997. ISBN 0-679-43374-0.
• Love. 2003. ISBN 0-375-40944-0.
• A Mercy. 2008. ISBN 978-0-307-26423-7.
• Home. 2012. ISBN 0307594165.
• God Help the Child. 2015. ISBN 0307594173.
• Children's literature (with Slade Morrison)
• The Big Box (1999)
• The Book of Mean People (2002)
• Peeny Butter Fudge (2009)
• Short fiction
• Recitatif" (1983)