The Dancing Mind: Speech upon Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished C ontribution to American Letters

Toni Morrison
Publisher: Knopf
December 1996
EAN: 9780375400322
ISBN: 037540032X

Synopsis: On the occasion of her acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters on the sixth of November, 1996, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison speaks with brevity and passion to the pleasures, the difficulties, the necessities, of the reading/writing life in our time.

She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truthteller. --Oprah Winfrey