ToniMorrison



• Personal Life - Born Chloe Anthony Wofford on Feburary 18, 1931. In 1949 She attended Howard University to study and recieved a B.A. in English in 1953, also earned Masters degree in English at Cornell University in 1955. In 1958 she married Harold Morrison and had two children but later divorced in 1964.

• Professional Life - She became an English instructor at Texas Southern Univeristy in Houston and then returned to Howard University to teach English. Later then moved to Syracuse, New York to work as a textbook editor. Also worked in New York headquarters as an editor. Morrison began writing poet in Howard University and then later started writing novels. She currently holds a place on the editorial board of The Nation magazine.

• Major works - She wrote 8 books The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1973), Song of Solomon (1977), Tar Baby (1981), Beloved (1988), Jazz (1992), Paradise (1999), Love (2003).

• Awards won - She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, which she was the first black african american to win it. She also has won Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1987 "Beloved".