Toni Morrison Book summary

Toni Morrison was born in Ohio with the name, Chloe Anthony Wofford, but she chose to change her name when her classmates had trouble pronouncing her last name. She studied English at Howard University, and Cornell University before going on to become an English Professor. She then took up the role of an editor at Random House and was convinced by her colleagues to take up writing fiction. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. She continued to write late in her life and gathered several accolades for the numerous masterpieces that she crafted. Morrison became the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature in 1993 and tended to focus her writing on the experience of black women in America.