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 ...

The Bottom’s Banned Book Recs: The Rabbit’s Wedding by Garth Williams, The Giver by Lois Lowry, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M.

Toni Morrison won a Pulitzer Prize ... morning to write what would eventually become her first novel, The Bluest Eye. The urgency and importance of its message runs like a thread through its ...

Toni Morrison's words still have the power to ... of Black people in America with novels like "Beloved", "The Bluest Eye" and ...

Reading Toni Morrison as a Black girl ... biscuits also made an appearance in Morrison’s first novel, The Bluest Eye, pegged there as “flaky ovals of innocence.” In Song of Solomon, she ...

Toni Morrison’s literary legacy is beyond brilliant. While Beloved is often seen as her most acclaimed novels, we cannot deny ...

Ohio established Toni Morrison Day — named for the late ... Her books include The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved. During a news conference, children’s author Elisa Stone Leahy ...