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Toni Morrison was born february 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio. She was the second of four children. Morrison's parents were Ramah and George Wofford.
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Chlo enrolled at Howard University after graduating, where she got the nickname " Toni " from. Toni received her B.A in English from Howard in 1953. After that she completed her Master of Arts in English from Cornell University.
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graduated Lorain high school
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She became an English instructor at Texas Southern University in 1955, he worked there for two years before returning to Howard to teach English in 1957.
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Toni married Harold Morrison who was a faculty member at Howard. After marriage they had two sons named Slade and Harold Ford Morrison.
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After Toni and her husband divorced in 1964, she moved to Syracuse, New York and became a textbook editor to support the remains of her family.
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" Song of Soloman " by toni morrison was chosen book of the month selection after being published.
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Toni received an Pulitzer Prize for the book " beloved ".
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Toni won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel ' Beloved ', was awarded for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, and wrote the english libretto for the opera " Margaret Garner in 2005, and more. Morrison’s work has gone on to inspire several generations of writers.
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Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom.
