TY - BOOK AU - Morrison,Toni AU - Giovanni,Nikki TI - Toni Morrison: the last interview and other conversations T2 - Last interview SN - 1612198732 PY - 2020/// CY - Brooklyn, New York PB - Melville House KW - Morrison, Toni KW - Novelists, American KW - 20th century KW - Interviews KW - African American novelists KW - Fiction KW - Authorship N1 - Interview with Toni Morrison / interview with Donald M. Suggs, Jr. -- Toni Morrison on capturing a mother's 'compulsion' to nurture in Beloved / interview with Charlayne Hunter-Gault -- Toni Morrison on love and writing, and dealing with race in literature / interview with Bill Moyers -- The Salon interview : Toni Morrison / interview with Zia Jeffery -- National visionary leadership project / video interview with Camille O. Cosby -- Toni Morrison's haunting resonance / interview with Christopher Bollen -- The last interview / interview with Alain Elkaan N2 - "In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews -- including her first and last -- Toni Morrison (whom President Barrack Obama called a "national treasure") details not only her writing life, but also her other careers as a teacher, and as a publisher, as well as the gripping story of her family. In fact, Morrison reveals here that her Nobel Prize-winning novels, such as Beloved and Song of Solomon, were born out of her family's stories -- such as those of her great-grandmother, born a slave, or her father, escaping the lynch mobs of the South. With an introduction by her close friend, poet Nikki Giovani, Morrison hereby weaves yet another fascinating and inspiring narrative -- that of herself."--Amazon ER -