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

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

5. .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.

6. . 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.

7. . 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)

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

9. . 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