American Literature / Unit 18 AML 1702 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Toni Morrison: The Editor and the Novelist
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The idea
Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio, took degrees from Howard and Cornell, and worked as a senior editor at Random House, where she championed Angela Davis and Toni Cade Bambara. She published her first novel in nineteen seventy and was the first African American to take the Nobel.
In practice
An editor who published other people first.
Where people slip
She taught at Princeton as emerita.
Your place on the trail
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