Toni Morrison

Chloe Ardelia Wofford, who took the name Toni Morrison, was born in 1931 in Lorain, Ohio, into a working-class family that had come from the South. She graduated from Howard and Cornell, taught, then worked for nearly twenty years as an editor at Random House, where she published Toni Cade Bambara, Gayl Jones and Angela Davis. She raised her two sons alone and wrote at dawn. Nobel Prize winner in 1993, the first Black woman to receive it, she taught at Princeton from 1989 to 2006 and died in New York in 2019.

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• NovelBelovedToni Morrison · 1987Literature