Lannan Readings & Conversations

Toni Morrison

Wednesday May 23 2001

No audio available from this event.

Toni Morrison has published seven novels, Paradise; Jazz; Beloved; Tar Baby; Song of Solomon; Sula; and The Bluest Eye. She has also edited two books of essays, Racing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality and Birth of a Nation'hood: Gaze, Script, and the Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case. Ms. Morrison, who is Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University, received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.

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Robert Hass has published many books of poetry including Field Guide and Sun Under Wood as well as a book of essays on poetry, Twentieth Century Pleasures. In his role as United States Poet Laureate, Robert Hass spent two years battling American illiteracy, armed with the mantra, " imagination makes communities." He crisscrossed the country speaking at Rotary Club meetings, raising money to organize conferences such as Watershed, which brought together noted novelists, poets, and storytellers to talk about writing, nature, and community.

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