Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus
Awards & Publications
Fiction – Love (2003); Paradise (1998); Jazz (1992); Beloved (1987), Pulitzer Prize, Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award, Lyndhurst Foundation Award, Melcher Book Award, Elmer Holmes Bobst Award; Tar Baby (1981); Song of Solomon (1977), National Book Critics Circle Award; Sula (1974); The Bluest Eye (1970). Criticism/Nonfiction – The Dancing Mind (1996); The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 1993 (1994); Playing in the Dark (1992). Libretto – Margaret Garner (2005); Drama – Dreaming Emmett (1986). Senior Editor, Random House (1967-83). Nobel Prize for Literature (1993). National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (1996). National Humanities Medal (2000). Founder of the Princeton Atelier.
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