Oprah Winfrey

MA issued a volume of twenty-four short essays of opinion and inspiration, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, dedicated to the tv talk-show host Oprah Winfrey , a virtuoso of the modern descendant...

Having no biological daughter, MA addressed this book to some women who mothered me through dark and bright days beginning with her biological grandmother and mother , one woman who allows me to be a...

This book was nominated for a National Book Award. The future television personality Oprah Winfrey checked it out of a library in her teens and found it a revelation: its story of survival, empowerment...

Its fame was re-ignited in 2004 when Oprah Winfrey chose it as a book club selection.

Amanda Craig in the Telegraph defined this novel as above all the female version of emancipation, told in vivid, vigorous language in which comedy, contempt and a fierce poetry are at work. It went on...

Song of Solomon was TM 's breakthrough novel. Reviewers' responses addressed her as a major figure. Reynolds Price in the New York Times Book Review welcomed the book as a wise and spacious yet...

Her screenplay Georgia, Georgia, 1972, was the first by an African-American woman to be filmed. She worked with others on adapting her first volume of autobiography for television under its original title, and she...

Hollywood producer Peter Guber bought the film rights to The Color Purple for $65,000. Composer Quincy Jones was keen on the project: he wanted Steven Spielberg (already famous for box-office success, now ready to undertake...

TM dedicated this book (which is based on the actual case of Margaret Garner) to the memory of the sixty million people who died on the slave-trade route (the middle passage) from Africa. Some...