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Toni Morrison

BIRTHDAY: February 18th, 1931

ABOUT HER
In her first grade, Toni Morrison was the only black student in her class and the only student who could read. After graduation from college, she became an editor and started sending her own novel, The Bluest Eye, out for publication. It was published in 1970 to much critical acclaim.

Her second book became an alternate selection by the Book-of-the-Month Club. It was nominated for the 1975 National Book Award in fiction.

Song of Solomon won the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award. Toni Morrison was appointed to the National Council on the Arts. Her picture has appeared on the cover of Newsweek.

Beloved was a best-seller and won the Pulitzer prize for fiction. In 1987, Toni Morrison became the first black woman writer to hold a named chair at an Ivy League university (Princeton). In 1993, Toni Morrison became the eighth woman and the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

AWARDS/HONORS

  • The first black woman to receive Nobel Prize for Literature
  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  • Appointed to the National Council on the Arts
  • American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award
  • National Book Critics Circle Award
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
Sula, Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
Tar Baby, Toni Morrison
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Jazz, Toni Morrison
LINKS TO LEARN SO MUCH MORE
http://www.netsrq.com/~dbois/morrison.html
http://www.en.utexas.edu/~mmaynard/Morrison/biograph.html


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