About
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (1931-2019) was a renowned American novelist, essayist, and editor. Born Chloe Anthony Wofford in Lorain, Ohio, she adopted her pen name after graduating from Howard University. Morrison's work delves into the African American experience, exploring themes of race, gender, and history. Her most famous novel, "Beloved" (1987), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and has been hailed as a masterpiece of American literature. Other notable works include "The Bluest Eye" (1970), "Sula" (1973), and "Song of Solomon" (1977). Morrison received numerous accolades throughout her career, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, becoming the first African American woman to win the prestigious award. Her critical success stems from her profound insights, lyrical prose, and unwavering commitment to telling stories that illuminate the complexities of the Black experience.
Book Series by Toni Morrison
Who's Got Game? Series
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? (Short Story) | 2003 | Buy on Amazon |
| Who's Got Game? The Lion or the Mouse? (Short Story) | 2003 | Buy on Amazon |
| Who's Got Game? Three Fables (Short Story) | 2003 | Buy on Amazon |
| Who's Got Game? Poppy or the Snake? (Short Story) | 2004 | Buy on Amazon |
Toni Morrison Other Novels
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| The Bluest Eye | 1970 | Buy on Amazon |
| Sula | 1973 | Buy on Amazon |
| Song of Solomon | 1977 | Buy on Amazon |
| Tar Baby | 1981 | Buy on Amazon |
| Beloved | 1987 | Buy on Amazon |
| Jazz | 1992 | Buy on Amazon |
| Paradise | 1997 | Buy on Amazon |
| Love | 2003 | Buy on Amazon |
| A Mercy | 2008 | Buy on Amazon |
| Home | 2011 | Buy on Amazon |
| God Help the Child | 2014 | Buy on Amazon |
Toni Morrison Short Stories/Novellas
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Recitatif (Short Story) | 1983 | Buy on Amazon |
| Race | 2017 | Buy on Amazon |
Toni Morrison Chapbooks
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| The Big Box (Short Story) | 1999 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Book of Mean People (Short Story) | 2002 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Mirror Or The Glass? (Short Story) | 2005 | Buy on Amazon |
Toni Morrison Picture Books
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Peeny Butter Fudge (Short Story) | 2009 | Buy on Amazon |
| Little Cloud and Lady Wind (Short Story) | 2010 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Tortoise or the Hare (Short Story) | 2010 | Buy on Amazon |
Toni Morrison Plays
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Desdemona (Short Story) | 2012 | Buy on Amazon |
Toni Morrison Non-Fiction Books
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Playing in the Dark (Short Story) | 1992 | Buy on Amazon |
| Race-Ing Justice, En-Gendering Power | 1992 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993 (Short Story) | 1994 | Buy on Amazon |
| Conversations with Toni Morrison | 1994 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Dancing Mind (Short Story) | 1996 | Buy on Amazon |
| Birth of a Nation'hood | 1997 | Buy on Amazon |
| Memoirs (Short Story) | 1999 | Buy on Amazon |
| Remember (Short Story) | 2004 | Buy on Amazon |
| What Moves at the Margin | 2008 | Buy on Amazon |
| Burn This Book (Short Story) | 2009 | Buy on Amazon |
| To Die for the People | 2009 | Buy on Amazon |
| Please, Louise (Short Story) | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations | 2019 | Buy on Amazon |
| Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations | 2019 | Buy on Amazon |
| Goodness and the Literary Imagination | 2019 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Writer Before the Page: From The Source of Self-Regard (Short Story) | 2019 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Measure of Our Lives (Short Story) | 2019 | Buy on Amazon |
The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures Series
Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition ( By: Siegfried Giedion)
1941
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition ( By: Siegfried Giedion) | 1941 | Buy on Amazon |
| i: Six Nonlectures (Short Story) ( By: E.E. Cummings) | 1953 | Buy on Amazon |
| Sincerity and Authenticity ( By: Lionel Trilling) | 1972 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance ( By: Northrop Frye) | 1973 | Buy on Amazon |
| Six Walks in the Fictional Woods ( By: Umberto Eco) | 1994 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Romantic Generation ( By: Charles Rosen) | 1995 | Buy on Amazon |
| Lessons of the Masters ( By: George Steiner) | 2003 | Buy on Amazon |
| Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye ( By: Linda Nochlin) | 2006 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Origin of Others (Short Story) | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
The Last Interview Series
Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (Short Story) ( By: Roberto Bolaño)
2009
Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (Short Story) ( By: Hannah Arendt)
2013
James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations (Short Story) ( By: James Baldwin, Quincy Troupe)
2014
Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (Short Story) ( By: Martin Luther King Jr.)
2017
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations ( By: Ursula K. Le Guin)
2019
Billie Holiday: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (Short Story) ( By: Billie Holiday, Khanya Mtshali)
2019
Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (Short Story) ( By: Frida Kahlo)
2020
Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (Short Story) ( By: Shirley Chisholm)
2021
Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (Short Story) ( By: Fred Rogers)
2021
Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (Short Story) ( By: Johnny Cash)
2021
Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (Short Story) ( By: Melville House)
2022
bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (Short Story) ( By: bell hooks)
2023
Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations ( By: Melville House)
2023
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Learning to Live Finally (Short Story) ( By: Jacques Derrida) | 2005 | Buy on Amazon |
| Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (Short Story) ( By: Roberto Bolaño) | 2009 | Buy on Amazon |
| Kurt Vonnegut ( By: Kurt Vonnegut) | 2011 | Buy on Amazon |
| Jorge Luis Borges ( By: Jorge Luis Borges) | 2012 | Buy on Amazon |
| Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (Short Story) ( By: Hannah Arendt) | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
| James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations (Short Story) ( By: James Baldwin, Quincy Troupe) | 2014 | Buy on Amazon |
| Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview (Short Story) ( By: Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller) | 2014 | Buy on Amazon |
| Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez (Short Story) ( By: Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez) | 2015 | Buy on Amazon |
| Lou Reed (Short Story) ( By: Lou Reed) | 2015 | Buy on Amazon |
| Ernest Hemingway (Short Story) ( By: Ernest Hemingway) | 2015 | Buy on Amazon |
| Nora Ephron: The Last Interview ( By: Nora Ephron) | 2015 | Buy on Amazon |
| Philip K. Dick ( By: Philip K. Dick) | 2015 | Buy on Amazon |
| J. D. Salinger ( By: J.D. Salinger) | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
| Oliver Sacks (Short Story) ( By: Oliver Sacks) | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
| Jane Jacobs (Short Story) ( By: Jane Jacobs) | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
| David Bowie ( By: David Bowie) | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
| Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (Short Story) ( By: Martin Luther King Jr.) | 2017 | Buy on Amazon |
| Christopher Hitchens ( By: Christopher Hitchens) | 2017 | Buy on Amazon |
| Hunter S. Thompson ( By: Hunter S. Thompson) | 2018 | Buy on Amazon |
| Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations ( By: Kathy Acker) | 2018 | Buy on Amazon |
| Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations ( By: Julia Child) | 2018 | Buy on Amazon |
| Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations ( By: Ursula K. Le Guin) | 2019 | Buy on Amazon |
| Billie Holiday: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (Short Story) ( By: Billie Holiday, Khanya Mtshali) | 2019 | Buy on Amazon |
| Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations ( By: Graham Greene) | 2019 | Buy on Amazon |
| Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | 2020 | Buy on Amazon |
| Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (Short Story) ( By: Frida Kahlo) | 2020 | Buy on Amazon |
| Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (Short Story) ( By: Shirley Chisholm) | 2021 | Buy on Amazon |
| Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (Short Story) ( By: Fred Rogers) | 2021 | Buy on Amazon |
| Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (Short Story) ( By: Johnny Cash) | 2021 | Buy on Amazon |
| John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations ( By: Melville House) | 2021 | Buy on Amazon |
| Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (Short Story) ( By: Melville House) | 2022 | Buy on Amazon |
| Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations ( By: Melville House) | 2022 | Buy on Amazon |
| bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (Short Story) ( By: bell hooks) | 2023 | Buy on Amazon |
| Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations ( By: Melville House) | 2023 | Buy on Amazon |
American Poets Continuum Series
Burning of the Three Fires (Short Story) ( By: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont)
2010
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 ( With: Kevin Young, Lucille Clifton, Michael S. Glaser)
2012
There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat With a Stick (Short Story) ( By: Michael Teig)
2013
The Day's Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech (Short Story) ( By: Stephen Dobyns)
2016
I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World (Short Story) ( By: Kendra DeColo)
2021
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Good Woman ( By: Lucille Clifton) | 1987 | Buy on Amazon |
| Next (Short Story) ( By: Lucille Clifton) | 1987 | Buy on Amazon |
| The City in Which I Love You (Short Story) ( By: Li-Young Lee) | 1990 | Buy on Amazon |
| Quilting (Short Story) ( By: Lucille Clifton) | 1991 | Buy on Amazon |
| What We Carry (Short Story) ( By: Dorianne Laux) | 1994 | Buy on Amazon |
| Red Suitcase (Short Story) ( By: Naomi Shihab Nye) | 1994 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Terrible Stories (Short Story) ( By: Lucille Clifton) | 1996 | Buy on Amazon |
| Fuel (Short Story) ( By: Naomi Shihab Nye) | 1998 | Buy on Amazon |
| Tell Me (Short Story) ( By: Kim Addonizio) | 2000 | Buy on Amazon |
| Blessing the Boats (Short Story) ( By: Lucille Clifton) | 2000 | Buy on Amazon |
| Smoke (Short Story) ( By: Dorianne Laux) | 2000 | Buy on Amazon |
| Book of My Nights (Short Story) ( By: Li-Young Lee) | 2001 | Buy on Amazon |
| Mules of Love (Short Story) ( By: Ellen Bass) | 2002 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande (Short Story) ( By: Ray Gonzalez) | 2002 | Buy on Amazon |
| Love Song with Motor Vehicles (Short Story) ( By: Alan Michael Parker) | 2003 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Owner of the House ( By: Louis Simpson) | 2003 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Orchard (Short Story) ( By: Brigit Pegeen Kelly) | 2004 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Rooster's Wife (Short Story) ( By: Russell Edson) | 2005 | Buy on Amazon |
| Postcards from the Interior (Short Story) ( By: Wyn Cooper) | 2005 | Buy on Amazon |
| You & Yours (Short Story) ( By: Naomi Shihab Nye) | 2005 | Buy on Amazon |
| Darling Vulgarity (Short Story) ( By: Michael Waters) | 2006 | Buy on Amazon |
| Not for Specialists ( By: W.D. Snodgrass) | 2006 | Buy on Amazon |
| Slope of the Child Everlasting (Short Story) ( By: Laurie Kutchins) | 2007 | Buy on Amazon |
| Sleeping With Houdini ( By: Nin Andrews) | 2007 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Fortieth Day (Short Story) ( By: Kazim Ali) | 2008 | Buy on Amazon |
| Elephants & Butterflies (Short Story) ( By: Alan Michael Parker) | 2008 | Buy on Amazon |
| Voices (Short Story) ( By: Lucille Clifton) | 2008 | Buy on Amazon |
| And (Short Story) ( By: Michael Blumenthal) | 2009 | Buy on Amazon |
| Carpathia (Short Story) ( By: Cecilia Woloch) | 2009 | Buy on Amazon |
| Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone (Short Story) ( By: Matthew Shenoda) | 2009 | Buy on Amazon |
| Sharp Stars (Short Story) ( By: Sharon Bryan) | 2009 | Buy on Amazon |
| Chaos is the New Calm (Short Story) ( By: Wyn Cooper) | 2010 | Buy on Amazon |
| Long Lens ( By: Peter Makuck) | 2010 | Buy on Amazon |
| Burning of the Three Fires (Short Story) ( By: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont) | 2010 | Buy on Amazon |
| Diwata ) (Short Story) ( By: Barbara Jane Reyes) | 2010 | Buy on Amazon |
| Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line (Short Story) ( By: Sean Thomas Dougherty) | 2010 | Buy on Amazon |
| Kingdom Animalia (Short Story) ( By: Aracelis Girmay) | 2011 | Buy on Amazon |
| Your Father on the Train of Ghosts ( By: G.C. Waldrep, John Gallaher) | 2011 | Buy on Amazon |
| Ennui Prophet (Short Story) ( By: Christopher Kennedy) | 2011 | Buy on Amazon |
| Transfer (Short Story) ( By: Naomi Shihab Nye) | 2011 | Buy on Amazon |
| Gospel Night (Short Story) ( By: Michael Waters) | 2011 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Hands of Strangers (Short Story) ( By: Janice N. Harrington) | 2011 | Buy on Amazon |
| True Faith (Short Story) ( By: Ira Sadoff) | 2012 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Reindeer Camps (Short Story) ( By: Barton Sutter) | 2012 | Buy on Amazon |
| To Keep Love Blurry (Short Story) ( By: Craig Morgan Teicher) | 2012 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 ( With: Kevin Young, Lucille Clifton, Michael S. Glaser) | 2012 | Buy on Amazon |
| Theophobia (Short Story) ( By: Bruce Beasley) | 2012 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Book of Goodbyes (Short Story) ( By: Jillian Weise) | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
| No Need of Sympathy (Short Story) ( By: Fleda Brown) | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
| Refuge (Short Story) ( By: Adrie Kusserow) | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
| Birth Marks (Short Story) ( By: Jim Daniels) | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
| There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat With a Stick (Short Story) ( By: Michael Teig) | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Keys to the Jail (Short Story) ( By: Keetje Kuipers) | 2014 | Buy on Amazon |
| All You Ask For is Longing ( By: Sean Thomas Dougherty) | 2014 | Buy on Amazon |
| What He Took (Short Story) ( By: Wendy Mnookin) | 2014 | Buy on Amazon |
| Copia (Short Story) ( By: Erika Meitner) | 2014 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Chair (Short Story) ( By: Richard Garcia) | 2014 | Buy on Amazon |
| In a Landscape (Short Story) ( By: John Gallaher) | 2014 | Buy on Amazon |
| Fanny Says (Short Story) ( By: Nickole Brown) | 2015 | Buy on Amazon |
| Testament (Short Story) ( By: G.C. Waldrep) | 2015 | Buy on Amazon |
| Why God is a Woman (Short Story) ( By: Nin Andrews) | 2015 | Buy on Amazon |
| Broken Hallelujahs (Short Story) ( By: Sean Thomas Dougherty) | 2015 | Buy on Amazon |
| Antidote for Night (Short Story) ( By: Marsha De LA O) | 2015 | Buy on Amazon |
| I'm No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance (Short Story) ( By: Rick Bursky) | 2015 | Buy on Amazon |
| Beautiful Wall (Short Story) ( By: Ray Gonzalez) | 2015 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Black Maria (Short Story) ( By: Aracelis Girmay) | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
| Celestial Joyride (Short Story) ( By: Michael Waters) | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
| Whereso (Short Story) ( By: Karen Volkman) | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
| Struggling Times (Short Story) ( By: Louis Simpson) | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Day's Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech (Short Story) ( By: Stephen Dobyns) | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
| The End of Pink (Short Story) ( By: Kathryn Nuernberger) | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
| Primitive (Short Story) ( By: Janice N. Harrington) | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
| Mandatory Evacuation (Short Story) ( By: Makuck Peter) | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Trembling Answers (Short Story) ( By: Craig Morgan Teicher) | 2017 | Buy on Amazon |
| Bye-Bye Land (Short Story) ( By: Christian Barter) | 2017 | Buy on Amazon |
| Sky Country (Short Story) ( By: Christine Kitano) | 2017 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Smoke of Horses (Short Story) ( By: Charles Rafferty) | 2017 | Buy on Amazon |
| All Soul Parts Returned (Short Story) ( By: Bruce Beasley) | 2017 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Second O of Sorrow ) (Short Story) ( By: Sean Thomas Dougherty) | 2018 | Buy on Amazon |
| Holy Moly Carry Me (Short Story) ( By: Erika Meitner) | 2018 | Buy on Amazon |
| Clues from the Animal Kingdom ) (Short Story) ( By: Christopher Kennedy) | 2018 | Buy on Amazon |
| Dresses from the Old Country ) (Short Story) ( By: Laura Read) | 2018 | Buy on Amazon |
| In Country (Short Story) ( By: Hugh Martin) | 2018 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Tiny Journalist (Short Story) ( By: Naomi Shihab Nye) | 2019 | Buy on Amazon |
| All Its Charms (Short Story) ( By: Keetje Kuipers) | 2019 | Buy on Amazon |
| Night Angler (Short Story) ( By: Geffrey Davis) | 2019 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Human Half (Short Story) ( By: Deborah Brown) | 2019 | Buy on Amazon |
| Cyborg Detective (Short Story) ( By: Jillian Weise) | 2019 | Buy on Amazon |
| On the Shores of Welcome Home (Short Story) ( By: Bruce Weigl) | 2019 | Buy on Amazon |
| Rue (Short Story) ( By: Kathryn Nuernberger) | 2020 | Buy on Amazon |
| Year of the Dog ( By: Deborah Paredez) | 2020 | Buy on Amazon |
| Let's Become a Ghost Story (Short Story) ( By: Rick Bursky) | 2020 | Buy on Amazon |
| Brand New Spacesuit (Short Story) ( By: John Gallaher) | 2020 | Buy on Amazon |
| Mercy (Short Story) ( By: Lucille Clifton) | 2020 | Buy on Amazon |
| How to Carry Water ( By: Lucille Clifton, Aracelis Girmay) | 2020 | Buy on Amazon |
| Caw (Short Story) ( By: Michael Waters) | 2020 | Buy on Amazon |
| Letters to a Young Brown Girl (Short Story) ( By: Barbara Jane Reyes) | 2020 | Buy on Amazon |
| Mother Country (Short Story) ( By: Elana Bell) | 2020 | Buy on Amazon |
| I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World (Short Story) ( By: Kendra DeColo) | 2021 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Naomi Letters (Short Story) ( By: Rachel Mennies) | 2021 | Buy on Amazon |
| Diamonds (Short Story) ( By: Camille Guthrie) | 2021 | Buy on Amazon |
| Useful Junk (Short Story) ( By: Erika Meitner) | 2022 | Buy on Amazon |
| Field Notes from the Flood Zone (Short Story) ( By: Heather Sellers) | 2022 | Buy on Amazon |
| A Season in Hell with Rimbaud (Short Story) ( By: Dustin Pearson) | 2022 | Buy on Amazon |
| Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (Short Story) ( By: ) | 2022 | Buy on Amazon |
| A Tinderbox in Three Acts (Short Story) ( By: Cynthia Dewi Oka) | 2022 | Buy on Amazon |
| Little Mr. Prose Poem ( By: Charles Simic, Russell Edson, Craig Morgan Teicher) | 2022 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Dug-Up Gun Museum (Short Story) ( By: Ben Follows) | 2022 | Buy on Amazon |
Toni Morrison Anthologies
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir | 1987 | Buy on Amazon |
| Go the Way Your Blood Beats | 1996 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Good Parts | 2000 | Buy on Amazon |
| Black Satin | 2004 | Buy on Amazon |
| Women of Color Pray | 2012 | Buy on Amazon |
| Writers: Their Lives and Works | 2018 | Buy on Amazon |
| On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library | 2021 | Buy on Amazon |
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