The Dancing Mind

By Toni Morrison

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

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Jul 24, 2007
• ISBN: 9780307388094

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) was a Nobel Prize–winning American author, editor, and professor. Her contributions to the modern canon are numerous. Some of her acclaimed titles include: The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. She won the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Reviews for The Dancing Mind

[aberjhani_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The fact that the first African-American to win the Nobel Prize for literature is reading this amzazing work on the pleasures of intellectual stimulation and growth through reading is really the only qualification it needs to command the highest recommendations. Nevertheless, by moving beyond the sense of awe that Toni Morrison tends to inspire just by being Toni Morrison, one is able to delve into the wonders of her own dancing mind as revealed in this thrilling audio book.Aberjhaniauthor of "Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance""The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois"and "Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black"