Synopsis
Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison is America's first lady of literature. Her books encompass black American history but live and breathe in the present, rich in vivid characters, haunted by ghosts. Born poor in Ohio in 1931, she now lives in New York.
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Novels That Shaped Our World | Beloved
The slave trade context for Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'.
Toni Morrison Talks to Kirsty Wark
Kirsty Wark talks to Nobel Laureate, Toni Morrison on the eve of publication of her new novel 'Love'. She discuses the background to her novels 'Beloved' and 'Jazz'.