Books
A character named Pecola wishes for blue eyes
What is The Bluest Eyes
Morrison worked as an editor for almost 20 years, helping to curate literature from Black authors, a process she later described as "getting her hands covered in" this.
What is Ink?
Where was Toni born
What is Lorain, OH?
Toni Morrison's birthday
What is February 18th?
This book has a character affectionally called Milkman
What is Song of Solomon?
This famous media mogul helped popularize Beloved and produced the 1998 film adaptation.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
Toni's birth name
What is Chloe Ardelia Wofford?
What age was Toni when she published her first book?
What is 39?
This 2008 novel by Morrison explores themes of race and slavery in the 17th century.
What is A Mercy?
In 1985 Morrison wrote a play that centered around
What is Emmett Till?
Before her success as an author, she worked as a pioneering editor at this publishing house.
What is Random House?
Toni's undergrad school
What is Howard University?
This 1987 masterpiece about Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
What is Beloved?
This 1981 novel features Jadine Childs and Son, exploring the conflict between modern ambition and traditional culture
What is Tar Baby?
Who is Jane Austen?
What came first? Being a professor or being a Novelist?
What is being a professor?
The only short story Toni has written
What is Recitatif?
This 1992 nonfiction work by Morrison analyzes "Whiteness and the Literary Imagination".
What is Playing in the Dark?
In a 1998 New Yorker piece, Toni controversially referred to this politician as "our first Black president."
Who is Bill Clinton?
The First African-American women to receive this award
What is Nobel Prize?