Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison was the pen name of Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), an American author. The Bluest Eye, her first novel, was released in 1970. Song of Solomon (1977), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, brought her critical acclaim.

Morrison's most famous novel, Beloved, was released in 1987 and was a critical hit as well as a bestseller for 25 weeks. The novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988, and it was turned into a film of the same name in 1998. In 1993, Morrison received the Nobel Prize in Literature for her works, which were "marked by visionary intensity and lyrical import, gives life to an important component of American reality." Toni Morrison was the first black woman to win the prize, regardless of nationality.

Famous Novels: Beloved (1987), Song of Solomon (1977), The Bluest Eye (1970),...