Posts Tagged ‘Toni Morrison’
Toni Morrison’s “Remember: The Journey to School Integration.”
Not long ago I was in a local library’s children section and I came upon Toni Morrison’s 2004 children’s book Remember: The Journey To School Integration. I wasn’t aware of this book by Toni Morrison. Remember is the story of school integration geared towards younger readers and told through photos and text. In the text…
Read MoreBecoming Coherent In The World: The Extraordinary Career of Toni Morrison
February 18 is the birthday of the distinguished Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison, who was born in Lorain, Ohio near Cleveland in 1931. Morrison was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford to George and Rahmah Willis Wofford, who had both moved north from the deep south to better their lot. She attended local schools, graduating from Lorain…
Read MoreNew Toni Morrison Novel Set For Spring Publication
Nobel Prize winning author and Lorain, Ohio native Toni Morrison has a new novel coming out in April of 2015. The novel is entitled God Help The Child, and it concerns the impact of childhood traumas on several adult characters. This will be Toni Morrison’s eleventh novel. Her last novel, Home, appeared in 2012. She…
Read MoreAn Evening With Rick Sowash
It’s been a long, cold winter here in southwestern Ohio, just like so much of the United States. I didn’t venture out much when I didn’t have to, but I certainly enjoyed one evening in late January. On January 23, storyteller, musician, author and filmmaker Rick Sowash visited the Wyoming Historical Society in Wyoming,…
Read MoreHappy 83rd Birthday to Toni Morrison!
Happy Birthday to Toni Morrison, born in Lorain, Ohio on February 18, 1931, and one of only six Americans to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Toni Morrison will be profiled on the pages of this blog in the coming week along with Thomas Merton and Erma Bombeck. Please stay tuned!
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