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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, Toni Morrison is among our most distinguished contemporary novelists. Morrison describes herself as a black woman novelist, and all her novels deal with African American characters and communities. Exploring the entire cycle of human life in a spiritual context, her novels are also universal in their depiction of families, especially mothers and their children. From her first novel, The Bluest ...

Claiming the Heritage: African-American Women Novelists and History by Missy Dehn Kubitschek Nearly all black female novelists of twentieth-century America have found the essential substance of their art in one source-the history of black women in America. With great range and in many voices their works convey a search for identity in the modern world. Their novels have been shaped as women, cut off psychically and physically from family and c...