Toni Morrison: Nobel Prize-Winning Author of Beloved Dies at 88

Toni Morrison was an American novelist. Born Chloe Wofford on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio, she studied at Howard University and Cornell.

She wrote The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, the first Black woman to do so, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.

She was also an editor at Random House and a professor at Princeton. Morrison died of complications from pneumonia in New York City on August 5, 2019, at age 88.

Achievements: Nobel Prize in Literature (1993), Pulitzer Prize (1988).

Birth: February 18, 1931 - Lorain, Ohio.

Profession: Novelist.

Interesting Facts: She was the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.