NOVELIST
Nobel Prize Winner.
When Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, she became the first American woman to receive the award since Pearl Buck in 1938, and the first African American woman ever to be so honored. In describing her work, the Nobel Committee stated; "She delves into the language itself, a language she wants to free from the fetters of race. And she addresses us with the luster of poetry."
Career.
Born Chloe Anthony Wofford in Lorain, Ohio, Morrison graduated from Howard University in 1953 and earned a master's degree in English at Cornell University in 1955. After a series of university teaching jobs, she became the Robert F. Goheen Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University in 1988. Over...
Source: American Decades: 1990-1999, ©2000 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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