TONI MARRISONCHASSITY

EATONMARCH.17TH201

14TH PERIOD

Feb. 18th 1931Writer,

Educator

. Known for the 1st African America woman to receive the novel prize for literature (1993)

. Toni Morrison focuses on the experience of black Americans, particularly emphasizing black women’s experience in an unjust society.

.She was born in Chloe Anthony Wofford . Toni Morrison’s play, dreaming emmet. After 1999 Toni Morrison also published a number of children’s books with her son, Slade Morrison.

. Father: George Wofford (shipyard welder)Mother: Ramah Willis Wofford. Born in Lorain, Ohio where she was the only African America student in her first grade class.

. Education

. Howard University (B.A.)

. Cornell University (M.A.)

. She was married and had children. Her husband name was Harold Morrison (married 1958, divorced 1964; architect)

. Children: Harold Ford, Slade Kevin. She taught at Texas Southern University, Howard University, State University of New York at Albany and at Princeton.

. Her first novel was published in 1970, The Bluest Eye.. Toni Morrison taught at Yale in 1976 and 1977 while working on her next novel, song of Solomon