Toni Morrison
Biography
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. She is the author of many novels, including Sula, Song of Solomon and Beloved. She has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction.
-- Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18, 1931.
-- She is the second of four children and the daughter of George Wofford and Rhaman Willis Wofford.
-- Morrison was raised in Loraine, a town in northern Ohio near Lake Erie.
-- Her early favorites: Tolstoy, Dostoyevski, Flaubert, and Jane Austen.
-- Morrison graduated Loraine High School in 1949.
-- In 1953, Morrison graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English (minored in classics), from Howard University.
-- She received her Master of Arts from Cornell University in 1955.
-- In 1957, she began teaching at Howard.
-- Morrison has taught at Yale University, Bard College, Rutgers University.
-- In 1958 married she Harold Morrison, a Jamaican architect. They divorced in 1964.
-- In 1967, she became senior editor at Random House.
-- Her first novel, THE BLUEST EYE, was published in 1970.
-- In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer prize for fiction for BELOVED.
-- She won the Nobel Prize for literature (first black woman to win this award) in 1993.
-- Morrison has two children: Harold Ford and Slade Kevin.
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