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[This entry was updated by Catherine E. Lewis (University of South Carolina) from the entry by Denise Heinze (Western Carolina University) in DLB 143: American Novelists Since World War II, Third Series.] Toni Morrison became a novelist for the ages when...

Toni Morrison is one of America's most important writers of fiction. She has received critical acclaim, most notably the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987), the 1978 National Book Critics Circle Award for Song of Solomon (1977), and the eighteen-thou...

When her picture appeared on the cover of Newsweek in 1981 and her fourth novel, Tar Baby, was on the year's best-seller list, Toni Morrison was an anomaly in two respects: she is a black writer who has achieved national prominence and popularity, and sh...

Celtic singer Van Morrison can rock the blues or lay down the sweetest soul music that you'll ever hear. But anyone who has loved his sound knows that Morrison can also swing. He taps that skill on his new album, which is the first...

African American writer Toni Morrison's novel 'Jazz' is a depiction of "cultural mourning," the reaction of African Americans to their lost lives due to the sufferings inflicted upon them as a people transplanted to the US as slaves and as an attempt to re-appropriate...

Quincy Jones was among six musicians named as National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters for 2008.The 2008 Jazz Masters were announced Tuesday night at a ceremony hosted by NEA Chairman Dana Gioia at the Jazz at Lincoln Center venue named after trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie,...

A white and black-clad band led a hearse carrying the body of clarinetist Alvin Batiste and hundreds of mourners attached themselves to the jazz funeral Saturday for one of the city's most revered musicians.In the morning, crowds lined up to pay homage to the jazz...