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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
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