Toni Morrison
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the position of black people in US society; the damage men do to women; the sustaining bonds between women; the power of memory and the impact of the past on the present; the corruption of innocence; redemption. In 1993
won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
's eleven novels give her a place as one of the major American novelists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her books of non-fiction—speeches and essays on social and literary topics— give her an equally high place among American thinkers. She showed her versatility in less predictable genres: songs, theatrical works, and children's works in collaboration with her son Slade. Her themes have been summarized as
Biography
She said she was kind of split. My name is Chloe. And the rest is . . . that other person, who is able to deal with celebrityhood.