Toni Morrison is one of contemporary literature's most popular and critically acclaimed authors. She has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Prize announcement noted that she "in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality." Toni Morrison's novels include The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise.

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Critical Studies of Toni Morrison's Fiction
  Toni Morrison: A Critical Companion
       by Missy Dehn Kubitschek
  The Novels of Toni Morrison: The Search for Self and Place within the Community
       by Patrick Bryce Bjork
  Toni Morrison's World of Fiction
       by Karen Carmean
  Understanding Toni Morrison's Beloved and Sula: Selected Essays and Criticisms of the Works by the Nobel Prize-Winning Author
       edited by Solomon O. Iyasere & Marla W. Iyasere

Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize Lecture
  Nobel Lecture 1993
       by Toni Morrison, in World Literature Today

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