This author’s time editing books about the interior lives of Black people is depicted in Dana A. Williams’s book about this author “at Random.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who compiled The Black Book while at Random House. In a novel by this author, Sixo is burned by Schoolteacher after failing to escape the Sweet Home plantation.
ANSWER: Toni Morrison
[10e] Morrison wrote about the Sweet Home plantation in this novel, which was inspired by a clipping from The Black Book. Morrison described leaving Random House in the preface to this novel, in which Sethe kills her child.
ANSWER: Beloved
[10h] Morrison asked for free rein to edit a collection about this group titled To Die for the People. A member of this group included the sections “Prelude to Love—Three Letters” and “Blood of the Beast” in Soul on Ice.
ANSWER: the Black Panther Party [or the Black Panthers] (To Die for the People is by Huey P. Newton.)
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