Teer-Baby; Roman
$15,000 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · Signed · In dust jacket
Hamburg: Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, 1983. Presumed First German Language Edition, Presumed First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Format is approximately 5.125 inches and 8.25 inches. TEXT IS IN GERMAN. 358 [2] pages. RARE INSCRIBED GERMAN EDITION. Inscribed on the fep by the author. Inscription in English reads To Ed Best wishes Toni Morrison. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 - August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved; she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Born and raised in Lorain, Ohio, Morrison graduated from Howard University in 1953 with a B.A. in English. She earned a master's degree in American Literature from Cornell University in 1955. Morrison became the first black female editor in fiction at Random House in New York City in the late 1960s. She developed her own reputation as an author in the 1970s and '80s. Morrison's works are praised for addressing the harsh consequences of racism in the United States and the Black American experience. The National Endowment for the Humanities selected Morrison for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities, in 1996. She was
- Publisher: Rowohlt Verlag GmbH
- Year: 1983
- Edition: First Edition
- Printing: first
- Binding: hardcover
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