Lecture: Toni Morrison on Goodness in Literary Fiction
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Toni Morrison gave her talk titled, “Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination,” as the Annual Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality at Harvard Divinity School.
Venue: Harvard Divnity School
Host: Annual Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality
Writer: Toni Morrison, Robert F Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emerita, Princeton University, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, author of novels including The Bluest Eye (1970), Song of Solomon (1977), Beloved (1987), and Paradise (1997).
The Annual Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality was presented on December 6, 2012, by Toni Morrison, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emerita, Princeton University, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In a talk titled "Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination," she explored how authors illuminate concepts of good and evil.
