![]() Below, Morrison shares an epiphany she had about Sethe’s actions that changed the course of the novel. ![]() The book revolves around an escaped slave named Sethe, who kills her infant daughter, Beloved, to spare her capture by Sethe’s former masters. And yet, Morrison’s views on her own triumphs and shortcomings were eye-opening, and shone a light on the inner workings of her creative genius.Īs you wait for the magazine, we wanted to share this unpublished excerpt, where we strayed from the topic of failure to discuss how her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved (1987) bloomed into shape. One of our interview subjects was Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, whose miles-long list of awards would suggest she knows as much about failure as Einstein did about stupidity. ![]() We asked artists, art critics, and creative entrepreneurs about their definition of failure, and whether stumbles-either real or imagined-had ever proved beneficial to their work. Later this week, we’ll be releasing our latest issue of NEA Arts, which will focus on the concept of creative failure. ![]()
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