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.

Bestselling author Andrea Davis Pinkney honors her former mentor Toni Morrison in a new children ... with novels like “Beloved”, “The Bluest Eye” and “Song of Solomon”.

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 ...

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 ...

Toni Morrison's words still have the power to ... of Black people in America with novels like "Beloved", "The Bluest Eye" and "Song of Solomon". Her writing was poetic yet unflinching, capturing ...