Highlights
A collection of news and information related to Toni Morrison published by this site and its partners.
Displaying items 1-12 of 144
» View baltimoresun.com items only
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11-12
•
Next >
-
Pulitzer Prizes : No fiction winner
The 2012 Pulitzer Prizes award today had a big gap -- there was no winner in the fiction category, which must have ticked off a whole lot of marketing execs. What will they do with all the "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize" stickers they had printed up for...Tags: Awards and Prizes, David Foster Wallace, Justice System, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Malcolm X
-
Hey Ravens fans! Readings for Purple Friday
As the Baltimore Ravens get ready for this weekend's game, folks are geared up for a special playoff edition of Purple Friday, with colorful sweatshirts, caps, shirts, sweaters, etc. For the bookish, here are some favorite purple titles, to get in the...Tags: Tom Wolfe, Alice Walker, Abusive Behavior, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Zane Grey
-
Harry's education, and yours: A father sends his son off to college, with wisdom from a boy wizard
To Zac, my son:
As you prepare to enter college, one of your childhood pleasures — the "Harry Potter" books and movies — is ending in theaters around the world. What a journey author J.K. Rowling provided for you and millions of young...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Elections, Jane Austen, J.K. Rowling
-
Centerstage gets a fresh start with a topical lineup
The big news in Baltimore theater this season is the arrival of British-born Kwame Kwei-Armah, who is taking the helm as the new artistic director of Centerstage (700 N. Calvert St., 410-332-0033). Kwei-Armah, who replaces Irene Lewis, has said he's...Tags: Arts, David Mamet, World War II (1939-1945), Mount Royal, Howard Community College
-
Washington and Baltimore jockey for book lovers on the same weekend
Baltimore's book festival got here first.
Organizers of the 16th annual Baltimore Book Festival, which opens Friday, say they aren't fazed that a larger, glitzier, more star-studded event is being held on the exact same weekend just 40 miles to the...Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Julie Andrews, Festive Events, Broward Health Medical Center, Enoch Pratt Free Library
-
Next season at Center Stage: 'Jazz,' Sondheim, Mamet
The theme of Center Stage's 2011-2012 season might be summed up as rhythm — from the distinctive beat of "Jazz," a world premiere adapted from the Toni Morrison novel of that name, to the percussive profanity of David Mamet's "American Buffalo";...Tags: Music Theater, David Mamet, Republic of Ireland, Minority Groups, Theater
-
Made in Maryland
Absolute Power (1997)
Clint Eastwood stars as the sensitive thief who can save the entire American political system from complete corruption. Too bad he wasn't around during the Reagan administration. Eastwood discovers presidential corruption during...Tags: Richard Dreyfuss, The Monkees (music group), Psychiatrists, Event Planning, George O'Brien
-
At Akwaaba B&B, curl up with writers
Sun StaffAuthor Walter Mosley's room is dark and mysterious with midnight-blue walls, black velvet drapes and lamps that shine interrogationlike spotlights across the walls. It's a room befitting the popular creator of a series of detective novels. Toni Morrison'...Tags: Arts, Alice Walker, Cape May (Cape May, New Jersey), Zora Neale Hurston, Illinois
-
College Lit. 101
Special to SunSpotThere are certain staples of college literature classes. Profound novels by Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Dickens and other titans of British and American literature, for example. Books that provide a perspective on class and racial...Tags: Arts, Civil Rights, Charles Dickens, Racism, Students
-
Salisbury University
Special to SunSpotThe community of Salisbury University, which dropped the "State" from its name in 2001, takes pride in its growing national reputation. College guides from the Princeton Review to U.S. News & World Report are touting this college near the Wicomico River...Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Colleges and Universities, Drugs and Medicines, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Science
-
Toni Morrison celebrates life with friends
Several weeks ago, I wrote about seeing award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni speak at TNCC. During that talk, Giovanni told us she was looking forward to an upcoming event at Virginia Tech to honor her friend, celebrated author Toni Morrison. The event,...Tags: Literature, Poetry, Maya Angelou
-
Daum: Really? First gay president?
It's been a month since President Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage and was declared, on the cover of Newsweek, "the first gay president." That's an eternity in politics, but Obama's swing through California last week, which included a...
Tags: Los Angeles Times Columnists, Woodrow Wilson, Same-Sex Marriage, Barack Obama, Monica Lewinsky
Apr 16, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jan 13, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Aug 22, 2011
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Sep 6, 2011
|Story| Patuxent Homestead
Sep 22, 2011
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Mar 26, 2011
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Nov 1, 2006
|Story| Baltimoresun.com
Feb 24, 2005
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Sep 19, 2002
|Story| Baltimoresun.com
Aug 29, 2002
|Story| Baltimoresun.com
Oct 19, 2012
| Daily Press
Jun 14, 2012
|Column| Los Angeles Times
Original site for Toni Morrison topic gallery.
