Toni Morrison publishes The Bluest Eye, her debut novel, while working as an editor at Random House. She was the first black woman to be a senior editor in the fiction department
The Bluest Eye
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Toni Morrison publishes The Bluest Eye, her debut novel, while working as an editor at Random House. She was the first black woman to be a senior editor in the fiction department