Winter 2004

Toni Morrison’s (1931–2019) numerous awards include the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved, and a National Book Award for Song of Solomon. Her other books include the novel Love (Knopf, 2003) and the children’s book The Lion or the Mouse? (Scribner, 2003), the latest in a series of retellings of Aesop’s fables, co-authored with her son, Slade. Her work in VQR appeared as part of the book Remember, from Houghton Mifflin. Photo by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.

Maurice Manning’s first collection, Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions (2001), was selected by W. S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. His poems also have appeared in Green Mountains Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Sonora Review, and Spoon River Poetry Review. Manning is an assistant professor of English at DePauw University.