UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DA PARAÍBA – UEPB

CENTRO DE EDUCAÇÃO – CEDUC II

DEPERTAMENTO DE LETRAS E ARTES - CEDUC

Professora: VITÓRIA

Disciplina: LITERATURA NORTE AMERICANA II

Aluno: RICARDO PEREIRA S. PEREIRA

TONI MORRISON

PROJECT WORK

SHE WAS BORN IN LORAIN,(OHIO) IN FEBRUARY 18,1931;

CHLOE ANTHONY WOFFORD;

PARENTS: GEORGE AND RAMAH WILLIS;

The Howard University Players;

Graduated from Howard University in 1953;

Worked at Texas Southern University in Houston;

In 1957 she returned to Howard University as a member of faculty;

TONI MORRISON´S BIOGRAPHY

She married in 1958;

Her first son, Harold Ford, was born in 1961;

Joined a small writer's group as a temporary escape from an unhappy married life;

Her marriage deteriorated, and while pregnant with their second child;

In 1964 Morrison worked as a textbook subsidiary of Random House in New York as an associate editor;

TONI MORRISON´S BIOGRAPHY

From 1971-1972 Morrison was the associate professor of English at the State University of New York;

From 1976-1977, she was a visiting lecturer at Yale University in New Haven;

In 1983, Morrison left her position at Random House, having worked there for almost twenty years;

In 1984 she was named the Albert Schweitzer Professor of the Humanities at the State University of New York in Albany;

TONI MORRISON´S BIOGRAPHY

Sense of Loss;

Roots, Community, and Identity;

Ancestors;

Extreme Situations;

Freedom and "Bad" Men;]

Responsibility;

Good and Evil;

Loss of Innocence;

Themes and Practices in Morrison's Novels

TONI MORRISON´S NOVELS THE BLUEST EYES (1970);

SULA (1973);

SONG OF SALOMON (1977);

TAR BABY (1981);

BELOVED (1987);

JAZZ (1992);

PARADISE (1997);

LOVE (2003);

A MERCY (2008);

1977 National Book Critics Circle Award for Song of Solomon;

1977 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award;

1987-88 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award;

1988 Helmerich Award;

1988 American Book Award for Beloved;

1988 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Race Relations for Beloved;

1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Beloved;

1993 Nobel Prize for Literature;

1994 Condorcet Medal, Paris;

2005 Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Oxford University;

2011 Honorary Doctor of Letters at Rutgers University Graduation Commencement;

2011 Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Geneva;

2012 Received Presidential Medal of Freedom;

AWARDS

Some Toni Morrison´s Books

FAMILY´S PHOTO

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/toni_morrison/index.html?8qa

http://www.infoescola.com/biografias/toni-morrison/

FAMILY´S PHOTO

Graffiti of Toni Morrison in the city of Vitoria, in Spain

Toni Morrison at the Miami Book Fair International of 1986

INTERVIEWS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IZvMhQ2LIU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Zgu2hrs2k

TONI MORRISON´S SIGNATURE

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/morrison.html#black

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http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/morrison/morrison_toni-bio.html

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http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/toni_morrison/index.html?8qa

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison;

BLIBLIOGRAPHY