You can identify the beautiful prose of Toni Morrison within a couple of pages.

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Sandra Day O'Connor, Rachael Carson, Toni Morrison, Margaret Thatcher, Clara Barton, Marie Curie.

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Instead, Leslie Feist says things like Toni Morrison's narratives and the color indigo blue tend to make more of an impact.

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The last one was Toni Morrison 13 years ago, in 1993.

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Kirsty also presents an occasional series of interviews for BBC Four with guests as wide ranging as Toni Morrison, Hannan Ashrawi and Woody Allen.

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Some critics questioned why the N-word was unacceptable in Huck Finn but OK in the works of Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison.

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Below that were video testimonials from big-name writers like Michael Lewis and Toni Morrison, recycled from the launch of the original Kindle, in the fall of 2007.

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It's still sound advice -- and in the intervening years, black authors have taken it, from Alex Haley's 1976 blockbuster, "Roots, " to Toni Morrison's haunting "Beloved" from 1987.

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So she charts the tradition not only of African-American women writers, from Phillis Wheatley, an 18th-century poet, to the Nobel-prize-winning Toni Morrison, but also of white women who wrote on slavery.

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And "Beloved, " starring Oprah Winfrey and based on Toni Morrison's novel of the same name, is the story of a former slave visited by the ghost of the daughter that she killed.

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It is the second largest in Latin America, drawing more than half a million visitors, nearly two thousand publishers, and hundreds of authors, including, over the years, Nadine Gordimer, William Styron, and Toni Morrison.

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Another luminary to be awarded the honour, Toni Morrison, is renowned for her portrayal of the African-American experience in novels such as Song Of Solomon, and Beloved, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988.

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S. Naipaul, Toni Morrison, and Philip Roth.

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Toni Morrison, Richard Ford, Edward P.

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Designed for entertaining, with a large space with curved white walls and a separate caterer's kitchen, the duplex has hosted scores of literary parties including charity events featuring authors like Toni Morrison and Mr. Caro since Ms. Friedman finished renovating it five years ago.

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