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For Her 88th Birthday, Toni Morrison Gives Us the Gift of Self-Regard
“A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are a necessity,” Toni Morrison writes in the prologue of her latest book, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations, released on February 12 by Knopf. Over the course of nearly five decades, one might argue Morrison has proved herself to be both gift and necessity to our cultural consciousness. Her groundbreaking debut novel, The Bluest Eye (1970) changed the landscape of American literature, followed by a series of searing novels, nonfictional works, and even plays and children’s books that have garnered her Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, amongst her countless other accolades... Read More.
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