The unflinching wisdom of Toni Morrison lends not only purpose but propulsion to the stage adaptation of her first novel, “The Bluest Eye,” now at Pasadena’s A Noise Within through Sept. 24. Morrison ...
In 1970, Toni Morrison published her first novel, “The Bluest Eye.” Set in Ohio in the 1940s, the powerful story is centered around 11-year-old Pecola Breedlove, a Black girl who grew up in a violent ...
The Bonita Unified school board is expected to discuss the fate of the 1970 novel “The Bluest Eye” at its meeting Wednesday, June 28. For update, see: Bonita Unified school board keeps ‘The Bluest Eye ...
Bowing to Tea Party pressure, Alabama State Senator Bill Holtzclaw said this week that he thinks The Bluest Eye, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison's novel about a little black girl who wishes ...
Toni Morrison’s 1970 debut novel “The Bluest Eye” is a dark, gritty portrait of African-American life in 1940s Ohio. There’s beauty in Morrison’s lyrical prose, but the book pulls no punches in its ...
In 1970, Nobel Prize laureate and Cornell alumna, Toni Morrison M.A. ‘55 published her acclaimed debut novel The Bluest Eye, marking the beginning of a career that spanned nearly five decades. To ...
Toni Morrison’s debut novel might be her most misunderstood. This essay is adapted from On Morrison (Hogarth). Banned as it’s been, everybody knows what The Bluest Eye is about: a little black girl ...
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison’s first novel, was published in 1970. Set in Lorain, Ohio — where Morrison herself was born — the book tells the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old African ...