Toni Morrison won a ... sons alone at the age of 39, Morrison woke up at 4am every morning to write what would eventually become her first novel, The Bluest Eye. The urgency and importance of ...

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison’s first novel, was published in 1970. Set in Lorain, Ohio — where Morrison herself was born — the book tells the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old ...

Nobel Prize-winning US author Toni ... The Bluest Eye, in 1970. Her 1987 book Beloved told the story of a runaway female slave and was made into a film starring Oprah Winfrey in 1998. Morrison ...

While thinking about how challenging it’s been for me to land even a full-time entry-level position, I found myself meditating on this Toni Morrison ... “The Bluest Eye,” her first novel ...