A reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrison-fiction non-fiction and other-drawing extensively
from her many interviews as well as her primary texts Toni Morrison: A Literary Life second
edition provides an overview of Morrison's intellectual growth as an artist. Linda
Wagner-Martin aligns Morrison's novels with the works of Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner
assessing her works as among the most innovative and most significant worldwide of the past
fifty plus years. The revised edition includes new discussion of God Help the Child The Origin
of Others and The Source of Self-Regard. These additions present and intensify scholarship on
Morrison's major literary contributions but also trace her significant role as a public
intellectual bringing to light the consistency of Morrison's aesthetic and political visions.
