Toni Morrison

Chloe Ardelia Wofford, known asToni Morrison was a

writter, an editor and a teacher. Most of her books are
studys about race, gender and beauty wich caught the
attention of the international critics, making her books top
sales.
She was born in Lorain, Ohio on the 18th of february of
1931. When she was a child she really liked to read books
and some of her favourite authors were Jane Austen and
Leo Tolstoy. She was also in the debate team of her school,
the drama club and the yearbook staff.
She attended Howard University, in 1953 and Cornell
University, in 1955. She also taught at Texas Southern
University for two years and worked at Howard University
from 1957 to 1964. Toni Morrison became a fiction editor at
Random House when she was 34 years old. In 1984 she
began teaching writing at the State University of New York,
which she left to join the faculty of Princeton University.
Some of her books are “The bluest eye”, “Sula”,”Beloved”
wich has a film adaptation, and more. Most of her books
talk about an unjust society where her characters struggle
to find themselves and their cultural identity.
She has won many prizes but the most memorable ones
are the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993
and the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom given to her by
the former president Barack Obama.

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