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

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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

About the Author


TONI MORRISON is the author of eleven novels and three essay collections. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.

Product Details
ISBN: 9780375400322
ISBN-10: 037540032X
Publisher: Knopf
Publication Date: December 24th, 1996
Pages: 24
Language: English

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