Toni Morrison by Cynthia Pineda (literary)

Toni Morrison is a noble prize winning American author, editor, and professor. She was born on Feb 13, 1931 at Lorain, Ohio. The second of four children in a working class family, she attended Harvard University in 1949. Morrison major was English. In 1958, Morrison married Harold Morrison a fellow faculty member at Harvard. She novels like “the bluest eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, Paradise love, a Mercury” Morrison wrote all types of books from short stories, novels, non-fiction, plays, and even articles. Morrison has got many awards for most novels. Morrison had a Nobel Prize for Literature. Later in life taught English 2 branches at State University of New York. In 1984 she was an Alber Schweitzer Chair at the University at Albany. The state University of New York from 1989 until she retired in 2006, she held the Robert F. Goheen chair in the Humanities at Princeton University. Her work is so significant because not only did she inspire her students but everyone else who wrote her books. She enjoyed teaching it was something she did for fun, other than write Nobel Prize Novels.

Morrison was the first African American to top hold a name in an Ivy league University. Her sixth novel, "Jazz" was published in 1992 then in 1993 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature for her work. She was the 8th women but was the first African American to every succeed.