Toni MARRISON CHASSITY EATON March.17 th 2011 4 th period

1. Toni MARRISONCHASSITY EATONMarch.17th20114th period

2. Feb. 18th 1931 Writer, Educator

3. . Known for the 1stAfrican 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