Toni Morrison was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford in Lorain, Ohio. She earned a B.A. at Howard University in 1953 and an M.A. at Cornell University in 1955. She became the first Black woman to serve as a senior fiction editor at Random House, and later taught at Princeton University.
Her novels include The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1973), Song of Solomon (1977), Beloved (1987), Jazz (1992) and Home (2012). She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, the first Black woman to do so. She died in the Bronx, New York, in 2019.
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