https://padlet.com/nickb3/vsfj1961u97t en-us 2016-02-05 19:42:59 UTC 2023-03-06 20:38:28 UTC hello@padlet.com nickb3 https://padlet.com/nickb3/vsfj1961u97t/wish/93569020 (1931-    )]]> 2016-02-05 19:44:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nickb3/vsfj1961u97t/wish/93569020 nickb3 https://padlet.com/nickb3/vsfj1961u97t/wish/93569494 She was the first African-American woman to win a Nobel prize in literature.  ]]> 2016-02-05 19:46:11 UTC https://padlet.com/nickb3/vsfj1961u97t/wish/93569494 nickb3 https://padlet.com/nickb3/vsfj1961u97t/wish/93570410 She Wrote the libretto for "Margaret Garner," which premiered in 2005.]]> 2016-02-05 19:50:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nickb3/vsfj1961u97t/wish/93570410 nickb3 https://padlet.com/nickb3/vsfj1961u97t/wish/93570975 The Toni Morrison Society, founded in 1993, became an official member of the American Literature Association.]]> 2016-02-05 19:52:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nickb3/vsfj1961u97t/wish/93570975 nickb3 https://padlet.com/nickb3/vsfj1961u97t/wish/93571373 Morrison's writings concentrate on rural Afro-American communities and on their cultural inheritance, which she explores with cold-blooded detail and vivid vocabulary.]]> 2016-02-05 19:54:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nickb3/vsfj1961u97t/wish/93571373 nickb3 https://padlet.com/nickb3/vsfj1961u97t/wish/93572009 Her eight major novels, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, Jazz, Paradise and Love have received extensive critical acclaim. She received the National Book Critics Award in 1978 for Song of Solomon and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Beloved. ]]> 2016-02-05 19:56:44 UTC https://padlet.com/nickb3/vsfj1961u97t/wish/93572009 nickb3 https://padlet.com/nickb3/vsfj1961u97t/wish/93572978 Born on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio, Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize- and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, editor and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue and richly detailed black characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved. Morrison has won nearly every book prize possible. She has also been awarded honorary degrees.]]> 2016-02-05 20:00:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nickb3/vsfj1961u97t/wish/93572978