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Toni Morrison is an African-American author, born Chloe Anthony Wofford, February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio.

In 1965 she became a senior editor for Random House in New York City. Morrison achieved a Master of Arts degree from Cornell University in 1955. Her novel Beloved won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988. This story describes a slave who found freedom, but killed her infant daughter to save her from a life of slavery.

She won the National Books Critics Award for Song of Solomon, a tale of the renunciation of materialism and the strength of brotherly love. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, the first African-American woman to receive this prize.

Table of contents

1 Novels 2 Plays 3 Non-fiction 4 External link

Novels

• The Bluest Eye (1970)
• Sula (1973)
• Song of Solomon (1977)
• Tar Baby (1981)
• Beloved (1987)
• Jazz (1992)
• Playing in the Dark (1993)
• Paradise (1999)
• Love (2003)

Plays

• Dreaming Emmet (performed 1986)

Non-fiction

• (April 2004)

External link

• The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993

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