Beloved

At the Satellite Awards, Edward Norton did win Best Actor.

Beverly D'Angelo was nominated for Best Supporting Actress but lost to Kimberly Elise in Beloved.

And it was nominated for Best Original Screenplay but lost to Pleasantville.

And then, hey, the Political Film Society Awards are back, Pete.

This success encouraged Morrison to become a full-time writer.

In 1987, Morrison released what many consider to be her magnum opus, Beloved.

The book is inspired by the true story of Margaret Garner, an African-American woman who was living in slavery.

The main character of Beloved is Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman who was constantly haunted by her dead child after making the gut-wrenching decision to kill her children, rather than see them become enslaved.

Though three of her children survived, her infant daughter did not.

Morrison dedicates the book to the millions of Africans killed during the course of the Atlantic slave trade.

It was Oprah who helped bring Toni Morrison's work even further into the mainstream, when she selected four of Morrison's novels in six years for her book club.

With an average of 13 million viewers watching these book club segments, the support from Oprah helped Morrison sell millions of copies and gave her an even bigger sales boost than she experienced when she won the Nobel Prize.

There was a movie...

First of all, there was a book called Beloved written by Toni Morrison.

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Toni Morrison, Beloved, was beaten-

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