Who was Toni Morrison?

Toni Morrison is the first black woman, to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. She was born in Ohio to Georg Wofford, a shipyard welder, in 1931. By day, she worked as an editor in a publishing house. She wrote in the night. She found writing to be exciting, and her characters took on a life of their own. Her first novel, ‘The Bluest Eye’ was about a girl who prayed for blue eyes. ‘Sula’, ‘Song of Solomon’, ‘Tar Baby’ and ‘Beloved’ are some of her major novels. In ‘Tar Baby’, she describes for the first time interactions between black and white characters ‘Beloved’, which tells the story of an escaped slave and her children, won Morrison the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988. She received the Nobel Prize 1993.