Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word

• Toni Morrison (ed.)
• HarperCollins, 2009
• Hardcover, 118 pages
• ISBN: 9780061774003

Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship and the power of literature to inform the way we see the world, and ourselves.

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. She is the author of many novels, including Sula, Song of Solomon, Beloved, and, most recently, A Mercy. She has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction.