Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
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Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Chad Thompson
Tommy Walker
| Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am | |
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| Directed by | Timothy Greenfield-Sanders |
| Produced by | Johanna Giebelhaus Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Chad Thompson Tommy Walker |
| Starring | Toni Morrison |
| Music by | Kathryn Bostic |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $903,018[1][2] |
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is a 2019 documentary film, directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, and produced by Johanna Giebelhaus, Greenfield-Sanders, Chad Thompson, and Tommy Walker. It follows American novelist Toni Morrison who examines her life and work. The film also features Oprah Winfrey, Fran Lebowitz, Russell Banks, Angela Davis and Barack Obama.
Morrison was an American novelist from Lorain, Ohio.[3] In 1988, she earned the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel Beloved and in 1993, she became the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.[3] She died on 5 August 2019. In the film, she and various friends, colleagues and literary critics discuss her life, work, and the themes she has explored throughout her career.