Toni Morrison was an American novelist, editor, and professor. She was born in 1931 in Lorain, Ohio and graduated from Howard University in 1953. Some of her notable novels include The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise. Morrison worked as an editor for Random House and taught at several universities. She received many honors for her work, including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.

3.  SHE WAS BORN IN  Graduated from
LORAIN,(OHIO) IN Howard University in
FEBRUARY 18,1931; 1953;
 CHLOE ANTHONY  Worked at Texas
WOFFORD; Southern University
in Houston;
 PARENTS: GEORGE
AND RAMAH WILLIS;  In 1957 she returned
to Howard University
 The Howard as a member of
University Players; faculty;

4.  She married in 1958;  Her marriage
deteriorated, and
 Her first son, Harold while pregnant with
Ford, was born in their second child;
1961;
 In 1964 Morrison
 Joined a small worked as a textbook
writer's group as a subsidiary of Random
temporary escape House in New York
from an unhappy as an associate
married life; editor;

5.  From 1971-1972  In 1983, Morrison left
Morrison was the her position at Random
associate professor of House, having worked
English at the State there for almost twenty
University of New York; years;
 In 1984 she was
 From 1976-1977, she named the Albert
was a visiting lecturer Schweitzer Professor of
at Yale University in the Humanities at the
New Haven; State University of New
York in Albany;

6.  Sense of Loss;  Freedom and "Bad"
Men;]
 Roots, Community,  Responsibility;
and Identity;
 Ancestors;  Good and Evil;
 Extreme Situations;  Loss of Innocence;

7.  THE BLUEST EYES (1970);
 SULA (1973);
 SONG OF SALOMON (1977);
 TAR BABY (1981);
 BELOVED (1987);
 JAZZ (1992);
 PARADISE (1997);
 LOVE (2003);
 A MERCY (2008);

8.  1977 National Book Critics Circle  1993 Nobel Prize for Literature;
Award for Song of Solomon;
 1977 American Academy and  1994 Condorcet Medal, Paris;
Institute of Arts and Letters Award;
 2005 Honorary Doctorate of Letters
 1987-88 Robert F. Kennedy Book from Oxford University;
Award;
 1988 Helmerich Award;  2011 Honorary Doctor of Letters at
Rutgers University Graduation
 1988 American Book Commencement;
Award for Beloved;
 2011 Honorary Doctorate of Letters
 1988 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in
Race Relations for Beloved; from the University of Geneva;
 1988 Pulitzer Prize for  2012 Received Presidential Medal of
Fiction for Beloved; Freedom;

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11. Graffiti of Toni Morrison in the city of Toni Morrison at the Miami Book Fair
Vitoria, in Spain International of 1986

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http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/morrison/m
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http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timesto
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison;