In 1993, at age 62, Toni Morrison became the second American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Morrison, who was also an ace editor for many years at Random House, disliked the label "African American writer," feeling that it implied her work was only for a niche audience. She identified herself as an American writer, noting that Tolstoy and Joyce could be Russian, Irish, Catholic -- they could write about their corners of society -- and no one urged them to expand their horizons. Morrison's novel Song of Solomon (Vintage, 2004) won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977. Beloved (Vintage, 2004) won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 and became a celebrated movie. Arguably her two finest novels, these works make a superb pairing. Both are stylistically fascinating, and both probe American culture and our history of slavery, as well as such topics as family dysfunction, the individual quest for identity, the relationship between past and present, and the unusual ways in which heroism sometimes manifests. We hope you will join us for spirited discussion.
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