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 ...

An Ohio-born author had one of her books on the American Library Association's Top Challenged Books list for 2024.

Toni Morrison won a Pulitzer Prize ... morning to write what would eventually become her first novel, The Bluest Eye. The urgency and importance of its message runs like a thread through its ...

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.

Toni Morrison's words still have the power to ... of Black people in America with novels like "Beloved", "The Bluest Eye" and ...

Features Toni Morrison discussing her journey as a writer ... Morrison reflects on her novels, including "The Bluest Eye," "Sula," and "Song of Solomon," exploring themes of identity, freedom ...

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 ...