Today, I have the honor of speaking with an American novelist and author of various awards such as the Nobel Prize of Literature, American Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Two of the three awards were given for her largely known, and well written novel, Beloved. I have with me Toni Morrison, who I now have the privilege of asking questions to about her works, and how she came across her ability of writing with such vivid imagery and dialogue that have won her so many awards, prizes and honorary degrees. She has created a career writing novels about discrimination in African American lives, and how it has impacted her world, as well as others.
Interviewer: To start us off, Toni, where did you grow up?
Toni Morrison: I was born in Lorain, Ohio, and I grew up in a steel town of a working-class family. My
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I know that my novel was fiction, but I wanted to make a social change, and I thought, what better way to do it, than through a piece of writing that has bits of nonfiction within the work, that makes the story more relatable, and also show a different type of activism that would make people think in a different way.
Interviewer: Your 1987 novel, Beloved, was a real winner in review and awards. Why do you think it was such a big read?
Toni Morrison: I believe that my novel, Beloved, was a real winner in the idea that my book was written in a period where racial tension had calmed down, but the time the novel was set was Post Civil War where race was a major factor of segregation. The people reading my novel I feel were able to really relate and feel a personal connection with each character and how they were being treated, especially with the base of true story.
Interviewer: Why did you base the main character off of a real person, Margaret