Toni Morrison

Chloe Ardelia Wofford, connue sous le nom de Toni Morrison, était une auteure, éditrice, essayiste et enseignante hautement accomplie. Elle est née le 18 février 1931 et est décédée le 5 août 2019. Née à Lorain, Ohio, ses parents, George et Ramah Wofford, ont éveillé en elle un amour pour les histoires et la littérature dès son plus jeune âge. La passion de Morrison pour le récit est restée avec elle toute sa vie, la conduisant à devenir l'une des auteures les plus influentes du 20e siècle.

Toni Morrison était une éditrice, enseignante et auteure américaine, principalement connue pour ses connaissances et son enseignement approfondis de la culture afro-américaine. Elle était également professeure émérite à l'Université de Princeton. L'écriture de Morrison se caractérise par ses thèmes épiques, ses dialogues vifs et ses personnages afro-américains richement détaillés. Ses romans explorent souvent des problèmes sociaux complexes, tels que le racisme, l'identité et l'héritage de l'esclavage. Les expériences personnelles de Morrison avec le racisme pendant son enfance à Lorain, Ohio, lui ont fourni une perspective et une compréhension uniques qu'elle a incarnées dans ses romans.

Les romans de Morrison ont reçu de nombreux prix et éloges critiques. Son roman "Aimé" a remporté le prix Pulitzer de la fiction en 1988, et elle a reçu le prix Nobel de littérature en 1993 pour être une auteure "qui, dans des romans caractérisés par une force visionnaire et une importation poétique, donne vie à un aspect essentiel de la réalité américaine". Les œuvres notables de Morrison incluent "L'Œil le plus bleu", "Le Chant de Salomon" et "Amour". En plus de son travail d'auteure, Morrison était également une éditrice et essayiste accomplie et a enseigné la littérature et les études raciales à plusieurs universités, dont Princeton.

L'impact de Morrison sur la littérature américaine est inestimable et son héritage vivra pour les générations à venir. Elle a été nommée l'une des "30 femmes les plus puissantes d'Amérique" par Ladies' Home Journal et a reçu de nombreux prix et distinctions pour son travail. Les romans de Morrison continuent d'être largement lus et étudiés dans les universités et les collèges, et ses contributions au domaine de la littérature ont été célébrées et reconnues par des universitaires et des critiques du monde entier.
Who's Got Game? Books
# Titre Année
1 Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? 2003
2 Who's Got Game? The Lion or the Mouse? 2003
3 Who's Got Game? Three Fables 2003
4 Who's Got Game? Poppy or the Snake? 2004
Romans indépendants
# Titre Année
1 The Bluest Eye 1970
2 Sula 1973
3 Song of Solomon 1977
4 Tar Baby 1981
5 Beloved 1987
6 Jazz 1992
7 Paradise 1997
8 Love 2003
9 A Mercy 2008
10 Home 2011
11 God Help the Child 2014
Nouvelles / Novellas
# Titre Année
1 Recitatif 1983
2 Race 2017
Chapbooks
# Titre Année
1 The Big Box 1999
2 The Book of Mean People 2002
3 The Mirror Or The Glass? 2005
Livres d'images
# Titre Année
1 Peeny Butter Fudge 2009
2 Little Cloud and Lady Wind 2010
3 The Tortoise or the Hare 2010
Pièces de théâtre
# Titre Année
1 Desdemona 2012
Livres de non-fiction
# Titre Année
1 Race-Ing Justice, En-Gendering Power 1992
2 Playing in the Dark 1992
3 The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993 1994
4 Conversations with Toni Morrison 1994
5 The Dancing Mind 1996
6 Birth of a Nation'hood 1997
7 Memoirs 1999
8 Remember 2004
9 What Moves at the Margin 2008
10 Burn This Book 2009
11 To Die for the People 2009
12 Please, Louise 2013
13 The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations 2019
14 Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations 2019
15 Goodness and the Literary Imagination 2019
16 The Writer Before the Page: From The Source of Self-Regard 2019
17 The Measure of Our Lives 2019
American Poets Continuum Books
# Titre Année
1 Good Woman (By: Lucille Clifton) 1987
2 Next (By: Lucille Clifton) 1987
3 The City in Which I Love You (By: Li-Young Lee) 1990
4 Quilting (By: Lucille Clifton) 1991
5 What We Carry (By: Dorianne Laux) 1994
6 Red Suitcase (By: Naomi Shihab Nye) 1994
7 The Terrible Stories (By: Lucille Clifton) 1996
8 Fuel (By: Naomi Shihab Nye) 1998
9 Tell Me (By: Kim Addonizio) 2000
10 Blessing the Boats (By: Lucille Clifton) 2000
11 Smoke (By: Dorianne Laux) 2000
12 Book of My Nights (By: Li-Young Lee) 2001
13 Mules of Love (By: Ellen Bass) 2002
14 The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande (By: Ray Gonzalez) 2002
15 Love Song with Motor Vehicles (By: Alan Michael Parker) 2003
16 The Owner of the House (By: Louis Simpson) 2003
17 The Orchard (By: Brigit Pegeen Kelly) 2004
18 The Rooster's Wife (By: Russell Edson) 2005
19 Postcards from the Interior (By: Wyn Cooper) 2005
20 You & Yours (By: Naomi Shihab Nye) 2005
21 Darling Vulgarity (By: Michael Waters) 2006
22 Not for Specialists (By: W.D. Snodgrass) 2006
23 Slope of the Child Everlasting (By: Laurie Kutchins) 2007
24 Sleeping With Houdini (By: Nin Andrews) 2007
25 The Fortieth Day (By: Kazim Ali) 2008
26 Elephants & Butterflies (By: Alan Michael Parker) 2008
27 Voices (By: Lucille Clifton) 2008
28 And (By: Michael Blumenthal) 2009
29 Carpathia (By: Cecilia Woloch) 2009
30 Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone (By: Matthew Shenoda) 2009
31 Sharp Stars (By: Sharon Bryan) 2009
32 Chaos is the New Calm (By: Wyn Cooper) 2010
33 Long Lens (By: Peter Makuck) 2010
34 Burning of the Three Fires (By: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont) 2010
35 Diwata ) (By: Barbara Jane Reyes) 2010
36 Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line (By: Sean Thomas Dougherty) 2010
37 Kingdom Animalia (By: Aracelis Girmay) 2011
38 Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (By: G.C. Waldrep, John Gallaher) 2011
39 Ennui Prophet (By: Christopher Kennedy) 2011
40 Transfer (By: Naomi Shihab Nye) 2011
41 Gospel Night (By: Michael Waters) 2011
42 The Hands of Strangers (By: Janice N. Harrington) 2011
43 True Faith (By: Ira Sadoff) 2012
44 The Reindeer Camps (By: Barton Sutter) 2012
45 To Keep Love Blurry (By: Craig Morgan Teicher) 2012
46 The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 (With: Kevin Young, Lucille Clifton, Michael S. Glaser) 2012
47 Theophobia (By: Bruce Beasley) 2012
48 The Book of Goodbyes (By: Jillian Weise) 2013
49 No Need of Sympathy (By: Fleda Brown) 2013
50 Refuge (By: Adrie Kusserow) 2013
51 Birth Marks (By: Jim Daniels) 2013
52 There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat With a Stick (By: Michael Teig) 2013
53 The Keys to the Jail (By: Keetje Kuipers) 2014
54 All You Ask For is Longing (By: Sean Thomas Dougherty) 2014
55 What He Took (By: Wendy Mnookin) 2014
56 Copia (By: Erika Meitner) 2014
57 The Chair (By: Richard Garcia) 2014
58 In a Landscape (By: John Gallaher) 2014
59 Fanny Says (By: Nickole Brown) 2015
60 Testament (By: G.C. Waldrep) 2015
61 Why God is a Woman (By: Nin Andrews) 2015
62 Broken Hallelujahs (By: Sean Thomas Dougherty) 2015
63 Antidote for Night (By: Marsha De LA O) 2015
64 I'm No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance (By: Rick Bursky) 2015
65 Beautiful Wall (By: Ray Gonzalez) 2015
66 The Black Maria (By: Aracelis Girmay) 2016
67 Celestial Joyride (By: Michael Waters) 2016
68 Whereso (By: Karen Volkman) 2016
69 Struggling Times (By: Louis Simpson) 2016
70 The Day's Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech (By: Stephen Dobyns) 2016
71 The End of Pink (By: Kathryn Nuernberger) 2016
72 Primitive (By: Janice N. Harrington) 2016
73 Mandatory Evacuation (By: Makuck Peter) 2016
74 The Trembling Answers (By: Craig Morgan Teicher) 2017
75 Bye-Bye Land (By: Christian Barter) 2017
76 Sky Country (By: Christine Kitano) 2017
77 The Smoke of Horses (By: Charles Rafferty) 2017
78 All Soul Parts Returned (By: Bruce Beasley) 2017
79 The Second O of Sorrow ) (By: Sean Thomas Dougherty) 2018
80 Holy Moly Carry Me (By: Erika Meitner) 2018
81 Clues from the Animal Kingdom ) (By: Christopher Kennedy) 2018
82 Dresses from the Old Country ) (By: Laura Read) 2018
83 In Country (By: Hugh Martin) 2018
84 The Tiny Journalist (By: Naomi Shihab Nye) 2019
85 All Its Charms (By: Keetje Kuipers) 2019
86 Night Angler (By: Geffrey Davis) 2019
87 The Human Half (By: Deborah Brown) 2019
88 Cyborg Detective (By: Jillian Weise) 2019
89 On the Shores of Welcome Home (By: Bruce Weigl) 2019
90 Rue (By: Kathryn Nuernberger) 2020
91 Year of the Dog (By: Deborah Paredez) 2020
92 Let's Become a Ghost Story (By: Rick Bursky) 2020
93 Brand New Spacesuit (By: John Gallaher) 2020
94 Mercy (By: Lucille Clifton) 2020
95 How to Carry Water (By: Lucille Clifton, Aracelis Girmay) 2020
96 Caw (By: Michael Waters) 2020
97 Letters to a Young Brown Girl (By: Barbara Jane Reyes) 2020
98 Mother Country (By: Elana Bell) 2020
99 I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World (By: Kendra DeColo) 2021
100 The Naomi Letters (By: Rachel Mennies) 2021
101 Diamonds (By: Camille Guthrie) 2021
102 Useful Junk (By: Erika Meitner) 2022
103 Field Notes from the Flood Zone (By: Heather Sellers) 2022
104 A Season in Hell with Rimbaud (By: Dustin Pearson) 2022
105 Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (By: Chen Chen) 2022
106 A Tinderbox in Three Acts (By: Cynthia Dewi Oka) 2022
107 Little Mr. Prose Poem (By: Charles Simic, Russell Edson, Craig Morgan Teicher) 2022
108 The Dug-Up Gun Museum ( By: Ben Follows) 2022
The Last Interview Books
# Titre Année
1 Learning To Live Finally (By: Jacques Derrida) 2005
2 Learning to Live Finally 2005
3 Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations 2009
4 Roberto Bolaño (By: Roberto Bolaño) 2009
5 Kurt Vonnegut (By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) 2011
6 Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview 2011
7 Jorge Luis Borges (By: Jorge Luis Borges) 2012
8 Jorge Luis Borges 2012
9 Hannah Arendt (By: Hannah Arendt) 2013
10 Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations 2013
11 David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words (By: David Foster Wallace) 2014
12 James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations 2014
13 James Baldwin (By: James Baldwin, Quincy Troupe) 2014
14 Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview 2014
15 Gabriel García Márquez 2015
16 Ray Bradbury (By: Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller) 2014
17 Gabriel García Márquez (By: Gabriel García Márquez) 2015
18 Lou Reed 2015
19 Lou Reed (By: Lou Reed) 2015
20 Ernest Hemingway 2015
21 Nora Ephron: The Last Interview 2015
22 Ernest Hemingway (By: Ernest Hemingway) 2015
23 Philip K. Dick 2015
24 Nora Ephron (By: Nora Ephron) 2015
25 Philip K. Dick (By: Philip K. Dick) 2015
26 J. D. Salinger 2016
27 J. D. Salinger (By: J.D. Salinger) 2016
28 Oliver Sacks 2016
29 Jane Jacobs 2016
30 Oliver Sacks (By: Oliver Sacks) 2016
31 David Bowie 2016
32 Jane Jacobs (By: Jane Jacobs) 2016
33 David Bowie (By: David Bowie) 2016
34 Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2017
35 Christopher Hitchens 2017
36 Martin Luther King, Jr. (By: Martin Luther King Jr.) 2017
37 Christopher Hitchens (By: Christopher Hitchens) 2017
38 Hunter S. Thompson 2018
39 Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2018
40 Hunter S. Thompson (By: Hunter S. Thompson) 2018
41 Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations 2018
42 Kathy Acker (By: Kathy Acker) 2018
43 Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations 2019
44 Julia Child (By: Julia Child) 2018
45 Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2019
46 Ursula K. Le Guin (By: Ursula K. Le Guin) 2019
47 Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2020
48 Prince (By: Prince ) 2019
49 Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2020
50 Billie Holiday (By: Billie Holiday) 2019
51 Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2021
52 Anthony Bourdain (By: Melville House, Helen Rosner) 2019
53 Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2021
54 Graham Greene (By: Graham Greene) 2019
55 Toni Morrison 2020
56 Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2021
57 John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations 2021
58 Frida Kahlo (By: Frida Kahlo) 2020
59 Marilyn Monroe (By: Melville House, Sady Doyle) 2020
60 Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations 2022
61 Ruth Bader Ginsburg (By: Melville House) 2020
62 Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2022
63 Shirley Chisholm (By: Shirley Chisholm) 2021
64 bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2023
65 Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2023
66 The Last Interview (By: Fred Rogers) 2021
67 Fred Rogers (By: Fred Rogers) 2021
68 Johnny Cash (By: Johnny Cash) 2021
69 John Lewis (By: Melville House) 2021
70 Janet Malcolm (By: Melville House) 2022
71 Diego Maradona ( By: Melville House) 2022
72 Kurt Cobain ( By: Melville House) 2022
73 Bell Hooks (By: bell hooks) 2023
74 Octavia E. Butler (By: Melville House) 2023
The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures Books
# Titre Année
1 Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition (By: Siegfried Giedion) 1941
2 Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition 1941
3 i: Six Nonlectures (By: E.E. Cummings) 1953
4 Sincerity and Authenticity 1972
5 The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance 1973
6 Sincerity and Authenticity (By: Lionel Trilling) 1972
7 Six Walks in the Fictional Woods 1994
8 The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance (By: Northrop Frye) 1973
9 Six Walks in the Fictional Woods ( By: Umberto Eco) 1994
10 The Romantic Generation 1995
11 Lessons of the Masters 2003
12 The Romantic Generation (By: Charles Rosen) 1995
13 Lessons of the Masters (By: George Steiner) 2003
14 Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye (By: Linda Nochlin) 2006
15 The Origin of Others 2016
The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures Books
# Titre Année
1 The American Newness ( By: Irving Howe) 1986
2 Highbrow/Lowbrow (By: Lawrence W. Levine) 1988
3 Revolutions (By: David Brion Davis) 1990
4 Playing in the Dark 1992
5 The Southern Tradition (By: Eugene D. Genovese) 1994
6 Writing Was Everything (By: Alfred Kazin) 1998
7 The Dissent of the Governed (By: Stephen L. Carter) 1998
8 Achieving Our Country (By: Richard M. Rorty) 1999
9 The Real American Dream (By: Andrew Delbanco) 1999
10 To Be the Poet (By: Maxine Hong Kingston) 2002
11 Reporting the Universe ( By: E.L. Doctorow) 2003
12 Circles and Lines (By: John Putnam Demos) 2004
13 Architecture as Signs and Systems (By: Robert Venturi) 2004
14 Reshaping the Work-Family Debate (By: Joan C. Williams) 2010
15 Tiger Writing ( By: Gish Jen) 2013
16 Tiger Writing (By: Gish Jen) 2013
17 Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations (By: Greil Marcus) 2015
18 Just a Journalist (By: Linda Greenhouse) 2017
Toni Morrison Anthologies
# Titre Année
1 Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir 1987
2 Go the Way Your Blood Beats 1996
3 The Good Parts 2000
4 Black Satin 2004
5 Women of Color Pray 2012
6 Writers: Their Lives and Works 2018
7 On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library 2021