On a day like this, 1931: American novelist Toni Morrison is Born
"The pieces I am, she gathered them and gave them back to me in all the right order" -Toni Morrison February 18, 1931, (Lorain, Ohio, US) Tony Morrison, the American writer noted for her examination of Black experience, especially Black female experience, is born. The central theme of Morrison's novels is the black American experience; in an unjust society, her characters struggle to find themselves and their cultural identity. Her use of fantasy, her sinuous poetic style, and her rich interweaving of the mythic gave her stories great strength and texture. Morrison's first book, "The Bluest Eye" (1970), is a novel of initiation concerning a victimized adolescent Black girl who is obsessed by white standards of beauty and longs to have blue eyes. [...]. In 1992 Morrison released "Jazz", a story of violence and passion set in New York City's ...