Toni Morrison Book summary

Toni Morrison was born to George and Ramah in Ohio on the 18th of February 1931. Her parents had been sharecroppers in rural Alabama and Georgia, but they had run away from the south to escape racism and economic oppression. She was the second of four children and excelled at all academic pursuits. She studied at Howard, and then later earned her master's degree from Cornell University. Toni then went on to work as an editor for Random House, and she was pivotal in aiding writers like Angela Davis. She began to write fiction at the insistence of her friends and family, her first book was called The Bluest Eye, and it was published in 1970. She continued to write until 2015, which was when her last book, God Help the Child, was published. She died in 2019 due to complications with pneumonia.