Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Morrison, Toni

Publication

• Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Giovanni, Nikki
• Freilicher, Lila
• Suggs, Donald M., Jr.
• Hunter-Gault, Charlayne
• Moyers, Bill D.
• Jaffrey, Zia
• Cosby, Camille O. (Camille Olivia), 1944-
• Bollen, Christopher, 1975-
• Elkann, Alain, 1950-

Description

ix, 170 pages; 21 cm.

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.

Series Statement

The last interview series

Uniform Title

• Interviews. Selections
• Last interview series.

Alternative Title

Interviews.

Subjects

• Novelists, American
• Interviews
• 1900-1999
• Fiction > Authorship
• African American novelists
• American fiction > African American authors > Interviews
• African American women novelists > Interviews
• Novelists, American > 20th century > Interviews
• Morrison, Toni > Interviews

Genre/Form

Interviews.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The first interview : editor's personal commitment shapes a scrapbook of Black history / by Lila Freilicher (Publishers weekly, December, 1973) -- Interview with Toni Morrison / interview with Donald M. Suggs, Jr. (River Styx, 1986) -- Toni Morrison on capturing a mother's 'compulsion' to nurture in Beloved / interview with Charlayne Hunter-Gault (PBS NewsHour, 1987) -- Toni Morrison on love and writing, and dealing with race in literature / interview with Bill Moyers (PBS TV, March 11, 1990) -- The Salon interview : Toni Morrison / interview with Zia Jaffery (Salon, February, 1998) -- National Visionary Leadership Project / video interview with Camille O. Cosby (November 5, 2004) -- Toni Morrison's haunting resonance / interview with Christopher Bollen (Interview magazine, March, 2012) The last interview / interview with Alain Elkann (AlainElkannInterviews.com, October 14, 2018).

Call Number

Sc D 21-398

ISBN

• 9781612198736
• 1612198732

LCCN

2021285572

OCLC

1141135414

Author

Morrison, Toni, interviewee.

Title

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

Publisher

Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The last interview series

Last interview series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Giovanni, Nikki, writer of introduction.

Freilicher, Lila, interviewer.

Suggs, Donald M., Jr., interviewer.

Hunter-Gault, Charlayne, interviewer.

Moyers, Bill D., interviewer.

Jaffrey, Zia, interviewer.

Cosby, Camille O. (Camille Olivia), 1944- interviewer.

Bollen, Christopher, 1975- interviewer.

Elkann, Alain, 1950- interviewer.

Research Call Number

Sc D 21-398