Toni Morrison (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Second Revised Edition)

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Toni Morrison, primarily a novelist, edited The Black Book (1974), a collection of documents and articles on African American history compiled by Middleton Harris, and published a short story, “Big Box,” in Ms. magazine (1980). Morrison’s first play, Dreaming Emmett (1986), was commissioned by the New York State Writers Institute of the State University of New York. Morrison has written many essays, some of the most notable of which are “The Site of Memory” in Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir, edited by...

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