Haley Bracken
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Haley Bracken was an Editorial Intern at Encyclopaedia Britannica in 2018 and 2019. She graduated from the University of Chicago in 2019 with bachelor’s degrees in English language and literature and political science. She specialized in late 19th- and 20th-century literature.
Previously, she worked in political journalism, researching and designing infographics for PolitiFact.
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The Bluest Eye, debut novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, published in 1970. Set in Morrison’s hometown of Lorain, Ohio, in 1940–41, the novel tells the tragic story of Pecola Breedlove, an African American girl from an abusive home. Eleven-year-old Pecola equates beauty and social…
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