The Washington Post, March 6th, 2006
An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. Thirty-three years ago, Toni Morrison labored in relative obscurity: She was the author of one novel, "The Bluest Eye" (1970), an editor at Random House, an associate professor of English at the State University of New York in Purchase. She was in her early forties, the divorced mother of two boys, slowly gaining respect in the scholarly and literary worlds but almost entirely unknown to the general public. Certainly, she was unknown to me. I was a relatively young man, working as ed...
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