Recipient of both the Nobel prize and Pulitzer prize, Toni Morrison has been recognized world-wide as a writer, educator, and activist.

September 2006 Feature of the Month
Women and Literature

Dear Feature of the Month Subscriber,

We’re pleased to let you know that September’s Oxford African American Studies Center Feature of the Month is up and running at www.oxfordaasc.com.

This month the feature explores the contributions of African American women to literature, highlighting Toni Morrison’s life and work in a Featured Essay by scholar Daniel Donaghy, and featuring well-known female writers like Gwendolyn Brooks, Maya Angelou and Alice Walker as well as lesser known authors like Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Dorothy West in a Photo Essay by Hilary Mac Arnold. As always, full biographies of these women, other important female writers, and subject entries are also available in the Featured Articles section.

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