1. Morrison Toni: Nobel Lecture Toni Morrison Nobel Lecture Nobel Lecture December 7, 1993 Once upon a time therewas an old woman. Blind but wise. Or was it an old man? A guru, perhaps. http://www.iliteratura.cz/amerbooks/autori/morrison/nobel.htm

american books i literatura Morrisonová, T. - životopis Morrisonová T.: Šalomounova píseò - recenze èeského pøekladu od H. Ulmanové Morrisonová T.: Šalomounova píseò - recenze èeského pøekladu od R. Olehly Morrisonová T.: Šalomounova píseò - ukázky z èeského pøekladu Toni Morrison - Nobel Lecture Nobel Lecture December 7, 1993 "Once upon a time there was an old woman. Blind but wise." Or was it an old man? A guru, perhaps. Or a griot soothing restless children. I have heard this story, or one exactly like it, in the lore of several cultures. "Once upon a time there was an old woman. Blind. Wise." In the version I know the woman is the daughter of slaves, black, American, and lives alone in a small house outside of town. Her reputation for wisdom is without peer and without question. Among her people she is both the law and its transgression. The honor she is paid and the awe in which she is held reach beyond her neighborhood to places far away; to the city where the intelligence of rural prophets is the source of much amusement. One day the woman is visited by some young people who seem to be bent on disproving her clairvoyance and showing her up for the fraud they believe she is. Their plan is simple: they enter her house and ask the one question the answer to which rides solely on her difference from them, a difference they regard as a profound disability: her blindness. They stand before her, and one of them says, "Old woman, I hold in my hand a bird. Tell me whether it is living or dead."

2. Literature 1993 Press release, curriculum vitae, nobel lecture, nobel diploma, Swedish nobel stamps, other resources. http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1993/

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality" Toni Morrison USA b. 1931 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 Press Release Presentation Speech Toni Morrison ... Other Resources The 1993 Prize in: Physics Chemistry Physiology or Medicine Literature ... Economic Sciences Find a Laureate: Last modified June 16, 2000 The Official Web Site of The Nobel Foundation

3. Boston Globe Online / Table Of Contents Article from the Boston Globe about author toni morrison's 1993 nobel Prize for Literature. http://www.boston.com/globe/search/stories/nobel/1993/1993p.html

Archives Big Dig Book Reviews Boston Capital ... Week in Photos Search the Globe: Today Yesterday MORRISON AWARDED NOBEL WRITER'S 'VISIONARY FORCE' CITED Author: By Gail Caldwell, Globe Staff Date: Friday, October 8, 1993 Page: Section: NATIONAL/FOREIGN Toni Morrison, the acclaimed novelist and critic, has been awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy announced yesterday. She is the first black American and the eighth woman to be cited for the prestigious award since its inception in 1901. In its citation, the Swedish Academy lauded Morrison for the "visionary force and poetic import" of her six novels, which include "Song of Solomon" and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Beloved." The Academy further praised the 62-year-old professor of humanities at Princeton for the "epic power" of her fiction, for its "unerring ear for dialogue and richly expressive depictions of black America." Morrison is the 11th American writer to win the Nobel, which last went to an American in 1987 when the prize was awarded to Joseph Brodsky. Speaking through her publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, Morrison expressed gratitude that a black American had been named by the Academy. "I am outrageously happy," she said. "But what is most wonderful for me, personally, is to know that the prize at last has been awarded to an African-American. Winning as an American is very special but winning as a black American is a knockout." Born Chloe Anthony Wofford in Lorain, Ohio, in 1931, the daughter of Alabama sharecroppers who had migrated north, Morrison began her career of letters in academe and publishing. After teaching stints at Howard and Yale, she became an editor at Random House in 1967. Her first novel, "The Bluest Eye," was published in 1970, followed by "Sula" and "Song of Solomon," which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1978. "Tar Baby" followed in 1981; in 1983, Morrison resigned from Random House in order to write full-time. She spent five years working on the novel that would become ''Beloved," the story of an ex-slave, Sethe, and her children, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988.

4. Toni Morrison Winner Of The 1993 Nobel Prize In Literature toni morrison, a nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, at the nobel PrizeInternet Archive. toni morrison. 1993 nobel Laureate in Literature http://almaz.com/nobel/literature/1993a.html

T ONI M ORRISON 1993 Nobel Laureate in Literature who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality. Background Born: 1931, Lorain, OH, U.S.A Residence: U.S.A Book Store Beloved Beloved [Video] (1998) - Starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover The Song of Solomon Jazz (Plume Contemporary Fiction) Paradise The Big Box ... Other books by and about Toni Morrison Featured Internet Links Bibliography Nobel Lecture Nobel Diploma Press release ... Women Nobel Prize Laureates Search WWW Search The Nobel Prize Internet Archive Nobel News Links Toni Morrison's Gift Morrison Awarded Nobel Writer's 'Visionary Force' Cited Links added by Nobel Internet Archive visitors Beloved Web Page (submitted by Ali Lakhia Toni Morrison biography (submitted by Danuta Bois Anniina's Toni Morrison Page (submitted by Miriam EducETH - Morrison, Toni: Information for students and teachers Toni Morrision's Page on the African American Lit Book Club (submitted by Troy Johnson Time Magazine Cover Story - 1/19/98 (submitted by Bruce Grega) The Beloved Project at Hampshire College (submitted by Louisa M. Martin

5. Biography.com - Black History Profiles of prominent AfricanAmerican personalities, ranging from Civil Rights Activist Malcolm X to nobel Prize-winning author toni morrison. http://www.biography.com/blackhistory/

6. Toni Morrison - Biography Douglas Century,toni morrison, New York Chelsea House, 1994. From nobel Lectures,Literature 19811990. Further references added by nobel e-Museum. http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1993/morrison-bio.html

Born Chloe Anthony Wofford , in 1931 in Lorain (Ohio), the second of four children in a black working-class family. Displayed an early interest in literature. Studied humanities at Howard and Cornell Universities, followed by an academic career at Texas Southern University Howard University Yale , and since 1989, a chair at Princeton University . She has also worked as an editor for Random House, a critic, and given numerous public lectures, specializing in African-American literature. She made her debut as a novelist in 1970, soon gaining the attention of both critics and a wider audience for her epic power, unerring ear for dialogue, and her poetically-charged and richly-expressive depictions of Black America. A member since 1981 of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she has been awarded a number of literary distinctions, among them the Pulitzer Prize in 1988.

7. Nobel Prize For Literature 1993 - Press Release Press release for author toni morrison's nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1993/press.html

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release: Nobel Prize for Literature 1993 October 7, 1993 Toni Morrison "who, in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality." "My work requires me to think about how free I can be as an African-American woman writer in my genderized, sexualized, wholly racialized world". These are the words of this year's Nobel Laureate in Literature, the American writer Toni Morrison, in her book of essays "PIaying in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination" (1992). And she adds, "My project rises from delight, not disappointment..." Toni Morrison is 62 years old, and was born in Lorain, Ohio, in the United States. Her works comprise novels and essays. In her academic career she is a professor in the humanities at the University of Princeton , New Jersey.

8. Toni Morrison American author, who was awarded the nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. In herworks toni morrison has explored the black experience in a racist culture. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tmorris.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback Toni Morrison (1931-) - originally Chloe Anthony Wofford American author, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. In her works Toni Morrison has explored the black experience in a racist culture. She has been a member of both the National Council on the Arts and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Morrison has actively used her influence to defend the role of the artist and encouraged the publication of other black writers. '"Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set adrift from the one you knew. What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company."' (from Nobel Lecture, 1993) Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in Lorain, Ohio. Her parents had moved to the North to escape the problems of southern racism and she grew up relatively unscarred by racial prejudices. Her family were migrants, sharecroppers on both sides. She spent her childhood in the Midwest and read voraciously, from Jane Austen to Tolstoy. Morrison's father, George, was a welder, and told her folktales of the black community, transferring his African-American heritage to another generation. In 1949 she entered Howard University in Washington, D.C. America's most distinguished black college. Morrison continued her studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She wrote her thesis on suicide in the works of

9. Morrison 'Taps Spirituality Of Black People' Article from USA Today on author toni morrison's nobel Prize and the roots of AfricanAmerican experiences in her books. http://www.usatoday.com/life/enter/books/oprah/o008.htm

10. EducETH: Morrison, Toni Photo showing toni morrison receiving the nobel Prize for Literature from the Kingof Sweden Biography with bibiliography Chronology By the Author nobel Lecture http://www.educeth.ch/english/readinglist/morrisont/author.html

EducETH Info Kontakt Suchen ... Grammar Morrison, Toni: *1931 Reading List Overview Books Secondary Literature ... Can You Help? Author Information Facts By the Author About the Author Video Facts 1993 Nobel Laureate in Literature "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality." (The Nobel Foundation). Photo showing Toni Morrison receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature from the King of Sweden Biography with bibiliography Chronology By the Author Nobel Lecture , December 7, 1993 Nobel Diploma Audio Listen to parts of the Nobel lecture. On the next page click the radio on. A new page with a radio appears; turn the dial to find Toni Morrison On the Back of Blacks : Time Magazine, December 2, 1993 Transcript of a talk Toni Morrsion had with students at MIT, 1992 Paradise found: a talk with Toni Morrison about her new novel by A.J. Verdelle; Essence Magazine, February, 1998 Interview at amazon.com mainly about "Paradise" Salon Interview ; Toni Morrison talks about "Paradise", what she learned form her marriage and why

11. EducETH: Morrison, Toni of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle The Novels of toni morrison (Southern Literary Studies(Paper) by Gurleen Grewal, 2000 This text portrays nobel Laureate morrison http://www.educeth.ch/english/readinglist/morrisont/seclit.html

EducETH Info Kontakt Suchen ... Grammar Morrison, Toni: *1931 Reading List Overview Author Information Books ... Can You Help? Secondary Literature If you know of any helpful book or would like to comment on the books listed below, get in touch with EducETH (Hans G. Fischer). General Information Toni Morrison Explained : A Reader's Road Map to the Novels by Ron David, 2000 Rating: Order the book from Amazon ( France Germany UK USA Dangerous Freedom : Fusion and Fragmentation in Toni Morrison's Novels by Philip Page, 1996 Rating: Order the book from Amazon ( France Germany USA Conversations With Toni Morrison by Toni Morrison, Danille Taylor-Guthrie (Editor), 1994 Rating: Interviews from over the course of Toni Morrison's career document her views about fiction, writing technique, and the role of the novelist. Order the book from Amazon ( Germany UK USA Books not rated yet; if you know any of these books, please send in your critique. Toni Morrison: The Magic of Words (Gateway Biography) by James Haskins, Jim Haskins, 2001 This photo-essay is written at a much lower reading level and for a much younger audience than Morrison's novels. But Haskins writes without condescension, and he includes fascinating information in a clear, direct style with short sentences. While chronicling the writer's life, Haskins also gives readers a glimpse into the times in which she has lived, providing a clear sense of her challenges and motivations.

12. Time Cover Story Paradise Found Article on author toni morrison's book 'Paradise' and how she has dealt with her writing after winning the nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1998/dom/980119/cover1.html

13. Toni Morrison Nobel Lecture toni morrison nobel Lecture 1993 nobel Lecture Address, author of Beloved,The Bluest Eye, listings of toni morrison works Beloved by toni morrison. http://www.literature-awards.com/nobelprize_winners/toni_morrison_nobel_lecture_

Toni Morrison Nobel Laureate Lecture and Speech of Acceptance, upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Delivered in Stockholm on the Seventh of December, 1993 "Once upon a time there was an old woman. Blind but wise." Or was it an old man? A guru, perhaps. Or a griot soothing restless children. I have heard this story, or one exactly like it, in the lore of several cultures. "Once upon a time there was an old woman. Blind. Wise." In the version I know the woman is the daughter of slaves, black, American, and lives alone in a small house outside of town. Her reputation for wisdom is without peer and without question. Among her people she is both the law and its transgression. The honor she is paid and the awe in which she is held reach beyond her neighborhood to places far away; to the city where the intelligence of rural prophets is the source of much amusement. Biography The Works of Toni Morrison Toni Morrison Audio Download Toni Morrison : Lecture and Speech of Acceptance, upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Delivered in Stockholm on the Seventh of December Hardcover One day the woman is visited by some young people who seem to be bent on disproving her clairvoyance and showing her up for the fraud they believe she is. Their plan is simple: they enter her house and ask the one question the answer to which rides solely on her difference from them, a difference they regard as a profound disability: her blindness. They stand before her, and one of them says, "Old woman, I hold in my hand a bird. Tell me whether it is living or dead."

14. Toni Morrison toni morrison author of Beloved, Jazz, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomonby toni morrison, nobel Laureate. nobel Prize Winner toni morrison. http://www.literature-awards.com/nobelprize_winners/toni_morrison.htm

Toni Morrison, Author Lecture and Speech of Acceptance by Toni Morrison, upon being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, delivered in Stockholm on the Seventh of December, 1993 Hardcover Pulitzer Prize Nobel Prize Nobel Lecture Text ... Audiobooks - hear Toni Morrison Read Novels by Toni Morrison Beloved DVD VHS Hardcover Paperback CliffsNotes Adobe e-book Paperback Pulitzer Prize American Book Awards The Bluest Eye Hardcover Paperback Sula Hardcover Paperback Song of Solomon Hardcover Paperback Tar Baby Hardcover Paperback Jazz Hardcover Paperback Paradise Hardcover Paperback The Big Box Library Binding Hardcover Paperback Book of Mean People Pre-order it now Toni Morrison : Lecture and Speech of Acceptance, upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Delivered in Stockholm on the Seventh of December Hardcover The Dancing Mind : Speech upon Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters on the Sixth of Nov Hardcover Plays Dreaming Emmet (performed 1986, but unpublished)

15. Toni Morrison RELATED SITES The nobel Prize in Literature 1993 (site by the Swedish Academy)The Web Page of toni morrison's Beloved (site by students at the University http://ohiobio.org/morrison.htm

NAME: Toni Morrison (given name, Chloe Anthony Wofford) BORN: February 18, 1931 COMMUNITY AFFILIATIONS: hometown...Lorain, Ohio (Lorain County) PARENTS: George Wofford and Ramah Wofford EDUCATION: graduated, Howard University, B.A., English (minored in classics) graduated, Cornell University, M.A. OCCUPATION: author senior editor, Random House, 1965 - 1985 professor, State University of New York, 1971 - 1972, 1984 - 1989; Princeton University, 1989 - present FAST FACTS: In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer prize for fiction for Beloved . She was bestowed with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. RELATED SITES: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 (site by the Swedish Academy) The Web Page of Toni Morrison's "Beloved" (site by students at the University of Texas) Toni Morrison References On The Internet (site by individual) Return to Main Page Return to Alphabetical index Return to Career Index Return to Geographical Index

16. Nobel Novelists: Toni Morrison & Song Of Solomon See the links from the nobel page and resource page for more information Barbara HillRigney, The Voices of toni morrison, Ohio State University Press Columbus http://www.hotchkiss.k12.co.us/HHS/nobelnov/morrison.htm

Toni Morrison Song of Solomon first edition cover Essay Topics What is the significance of the title of the novel, Song of Solomon? Identify the most significant symbol in the novel and justify your choice. State one possible theme of the novel, and support your position. Describe how the setting complements the primary themes of the novel. Instructor's Opinion: Give your opinion on why Song of Solomon is considered an important novel in the canon of world literature, and why it was seminal in the nomination of Morrison as a Nobel Prize winner. See the links from the Nobel page and resource page for more information. Critical Commentaries Valerie Smith, "Introduction,", in New Essays on Song of Solomon, ed. Valerie Smith, Cambridge University Press. 1995, 1-18. Song of Solomon tells the story of Milkman Dead's unwitting search for identity. Milkman appears to be destined for a life of self-alienation and isolation because of his commitment to the materialism and the linear conception of time that are part of the legacy he receives from his father, Macon Dead. However, during a trip to his ancestral home, Milkman comes to understand his place in a cultural and familial community and to appreciate the value of conceiving of time as a cyclical process. The Deads exemplify the patriarchal, nuclear family that has traditionally been a stable and critical feature not only of American society but of Western civilization in general. The primary institution for the reproduction and maintenance of children, ideally it provides individuals with the means for understanding their place in the world. The degeneration of the Dead family and the destructiveness of Macon's rugged individualism symbolize the invalidity of American, indeed Western, values. Morrison's depiction of this family demonstrates the incompatibility of received assumptions with the texture and demands of life in black American communities.

17. Additional Sources For Toni Morrison Other toni morrison Pages Curriculum Vitae toni morrison nobel Foundation tonimorrison's nobel Prize Lecture - nobel Prize Internet Archive Miscellaneous http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/tonimorrison/toni2.htm

Other Toni Morrison Pages Curriculum Vitae Toni Morrison - Nobel Foundation Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize Lecture - Nobel Prize Internet Archive Miscellaneous Portrait of Toni Morrison - Gilbert Fletcher On the Back of Blacks - Toni Morrison, TIME Representation, race, and the "language" of the ineffable in Toni Morrison's narrative - Abdellatif Khayati, African American Review "Like an Eagle in the Air: Toni Morrison" - Melvin Dixon Black Writers In Praise of Toni Morrison (1988) - NY Times For Morrison, Prize Silences Gossip (1988) - NY Times Toni Morrison Is '93 Winner Of Nobel Prize in Literature (1993) - NY Times Contact Information for Toni Morrison: Phone: 609-258-1070 Fax: 609-258-5095 Address: 110 Dickinson Hall Department: Afro-American Studies Email: morrison@princeton.edu Toni Morrison Society An invitation is extended to all individuals interested in joining the Toni Morrison Society. The Society has been established to initiate, sponsor, and encourage critical dialogue, scholarly publications, conference programs, and special projects

18. Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Toni Morrison toni morrison received the nobel Prize in literature in 1993, becomingthe first AfricanAmerican woman to win the award. Often http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-morrison-toni.asp

Books by Toni Morrison SULA Toni Morrison BIO Author of seven bestselling, critically acclaimed novels, Toni Morrison was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature. She also received the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for BELOVED and the 1978 National Book Critics Circle Award for SONG OF SOLOMON. Her most recent novel, PARADISE, was an Oprah book club selection in January 1998. BELOVED is now a major motion picture directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover. Morrison is currently teaching writing and English at Princeton University. Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18, 1931. She is the second of four children and the daughter of George Wofford and Rhaman Willis Wofford. Morrison was raised in Loraine, a town in northern Ohio near Lake Erie. Her early favorites: Tolstoy, Dostoyevski, Flaubert, and Jane Austen.

19. Toni Morrison Resources - Toni Morrison Directory Paradise Found The nobel Prize changed toni morrison's Life but not her art,as her new novel proves. TIME Cover Story January 19, 1998, By Paul Gray. http://www.academicinfo.net/amlitmorrison.html

Home Keyword Search Subject Index Reference Desk ... Student Center Academic Info : American Literature Humanities English Studies American Literature Authors Toni Morrison Academic Info is Publicly Supported Please make a tax-deductible donation (any amount is appreciated) to help keep Academic Info online and free of advertising. We accept credit cards or checks payable to Academic Info. Thanks a lot. Currently donations are not tax-deductible. Academic Info 19-143rd ST SW Lynnwood, WA 98037 Toni Morrison Books by and about Toni Morrison available from Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon. Help support Academic Info and a great American independent bookseller. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 From the official site of the Nobel Foundation Includes: Curriculum Vitae ; Nobel Lecture ; Nobel Diploma ; Other Resources ; Swedish Nobel Stamps. Anniina's Toni Morrison Page This beautiful site includes: Biographies ; Bibliographies ; Interviews ; Other Sources ; Bookstore. She also has sections on each novel. By Anniina Jokinen Beloved by Toni Morrison - A Homework Online Study Guide "...Included in this site are summaries and explanations, character analysis, discussion of themes, a user's forum where readers can discuss and ask questions, and much more."

20. Toni Morrison ©THE nobel FOUNDATION 1993. nobel Lecture by toni morrison nobel Prize in Literature1993. December 8, 1993 at at Stockholm Concert Hall, Stockholm, Sweden. http://gos.sbc.edu/m/morrisont.html

THE NOBEL FOUNDATION Nobel Lecture by Toni Morrison Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 December 8, 1993 at at Stockholm Concert Hall, Stockholm, Sweden "Once upon a time there was an old woman. Blind but wise." Or was it an old man? A guru, perhaps. Or a griot soothing restless children. I have heard this story, or one exactly like it, in the lore of several cultures. "Once upon a time there was an old woman. Blind. Wise." In the version I know the woman is the daughter of slaves, black, American, and lives alone in a small house outside of town. Her reputation for wisdom is without peer and without question. Among her people she is both the law and its transgression. The honor she is paid and the awe in which she is held reach beyond her neighborhood to places far away; to the city where the intelligence of rural prophets is the source of much amusement. One day the woman is visited by some young people who seem to be bent on disproving her clairvoyance and showing her up for the fraud they believe she is. Their plan is simple: they enter her house and ask the one question the answer to which rides solely on her difference from them, a difference they regard as a profound disability: her blindness. They stand before her, and one of them says, "Old woman, I hold in my hand a bird. Tell me whether it is living or dead." She does not answer, and the question is repeated. "Is the bird I am holding living or dead?"

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