Biography on Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford, on February 18th, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio. Morrison was the second child of four in her working class African American family. She was always interested in literature. As a child she was always reading. Her father told her many African folk tales growing up.
In 1949 Toni Morrison began to attend Howard University to Study English. In 1953 she received her Bachelor's in English from Howard also earning a Masters of Art degree. After graduating at Howard Morrison moved to Houston, Texas to teach at Texas Southern University from 1955 to 1957.
In 1958 Toni married Harold Morrison. They had two children together before getting divorced. After the divorce she moved to New York. Morrison began to focus more on her career and began to right poems and fictional pieces at a informal group of poets and writers at Howard University, who met to discuss their work. There she wrote the fictional story that was going to make her famous, the story of a young black girl who wished she had blue eyes. From 1975 to 1977 Toni Morrison wrote two other books, Sula and Song of Solomon.
In 1987 her novel Beloved won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1993 Morrison was awarded the Noble Prize in Literature, and in 1996 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Toni Morrison for the Jefferson Lecture.
Since then Toni Morrison went on to teach at colleges around the country such the State University of New York, the University at Albany, Princeton University, Barnard College and Oxford University in England.

Reflection: When author's write books they're backgrounds are usaly the explanation of what they write. This biography on Toni Morrison helped me understand how she felt towards beauty.