1. Toni Morrison
Words and Works

2. Early Life Born in Lorrain, Ohio in 1931
Her birth name is Chloe Ardelia Wofford
She eventually went to Howard University and graduated in 1953 and from Cornell in 1955

3. Greatest Works Total of nine published novels Her greatest novels are:
The Bluest Eye (1970)
Song of Solomon (1977)
Tar Baby (1981)
Beloved (1987)

4. Life Outside of the Pages
Morrison has been an outspoken activist on issues such as civil rights and women’s rights and role in society
She has been a guest lecturer at several institutions and museams such as Princeton University and the Louvre Museum in Paris

5. Influences
Morrison’s influences as a child were Jane Austen and Leo Tolstoy
Her writing has been compared to Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Alex Haley
Her style of writing can be seen in nearly every urban literature writer of the past decade.

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