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[jeziguh]

Acire wrote:
> See, here (States), we don't have any good, local, living authors. 
> If we did, or if I had seen a book/essay/poem that was written 
> recently, my opinion would be different. Maybe. We haven't had any 
> good books written recently. I'm sure someone's else's opinion 
> would be different, though. 

Would you consider Toni Morrison a "good, local, living" author?  
Because she's alive, still writing, resides in the US, and general 
consensus seems to be that she is a "good" author (and that Nobel 
Prize in Literature also helps).  

I'm not touching the "canon" discussion, but I did want to mention 
that I'm a college senior, a literature major, and I took a class 
entitled "Oz and Harry Potter" last semester.  So yes, it is offered 
at universities.  Incidentally, the class filled up within an hour of 
the opening of registration :)

-jeziguh, who is currently taking a Toni Morrison graduate class