Toni Morrison : the last interview and other conversations / [with an introduction by Nikki Giovanni].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019, interviewee.

Contributor:

Giovanni, Nikki, writer of introduction.

Series:

Last interview series

Last interview

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019--Interviews.

Morrison, Toni.

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019.

Novelists, American--20th century--Interviews.

Novelists, American.

African American novelists.

African American novelists--Interviews.

Fiction--Authorship.

Fiction.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

ix, 170 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, New York : Melville House, 2020.

Summary:

"In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews -- including her first and last -- Toni Morrison (whom President Barrack Obama called a "national treasure") details not only her writing life, but also her other careers as a teacher, and as a publisher, as well as the gripping story of her family. In fact, Morrison reveals here that her Nobel Prize-winning novels, such as Beloved and Song of Solomon, were born out of her family's stories -- such as those of her great-grandmother, born a slave, or her father, escaping the lynch mobs of the South. With an introduction by her close friend, poet Nikki Giovani, Morrison hereby weaves yet another fascinating and inspiring narrative -- that of herself."--Amazon.

Contents:

Interview with Toni Morrison / interview with Donald M. Suggs, Jr.

Toni Morrison on capturing a mother's 'compulsion' to nurture in Beloved / interview with Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Toni Morrison on love and writing, and dealing with race in literature / interview with Bill Moyers

The Salon interview : Toni Morrison / interview with Zia Jeffery

National visionary leadership project / video interview with Camille O. Cosby

Toni Morrison's haunting resonance / interview with Christopher Bollen

The last interview / interview with Alain Elkaan.

ISBN:

9781612198736

1612198732

OCLC:

1141135414

Publisher Number:

99985050608