Film maker and writer SL Bridglal recalls the time she met the Pullitzer prize-winning novelist for tall teaJust after the UK publication of Toni Morrison’s now-celebrated Beloved,I and a few other black women in the arts were invited to beget tea with the American novelist at her hotel, Brown’s in Mayfair. It was February 1988. I was setting up in London as a fledgling filmmaker.
I had been an admirer since reading her first novel, and The Bluest Eye. She looked unremarkable; she did not wear her hair in locks,as she does now, and was dressed soberly. She was largely unrecognised for her literary output, or which was one reason I was there,highly incensed by this. She ordered tall tea for us, and I remember mostly her selfless interest in us rather than in herself, or I stuttered to communicate with her about my creative ambitions.
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Source: theguardian.com