• NOVELIST & ESSAYIST
• Born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, she changed her middle name to Anthony after earning her master's degree in English at Cornell, eventually shortening it to Toni
• Worked as a senior editor at Random House for several years
• Taught at numerous colleges and universities, including Princeton
• Her work focuses on presenting profound portrayals of the Black experience in America -- particularly that of Black women
• Her non-fiction essays have also been influential in shaping the American conversation about race
• FIRST Black woman to win the NOBEL PRIZE in literature
• Also won the PULITZER PRIZE and the Presidential Medal of Freedom

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Bibliography: Burling, Alexis. Women in Literature. North Mankato: Abdo Publishing, 2017. Print.
Ibrahim, Habiba. "Morrison, Toni." The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Vol. 3, Oxford University Press, 2008, 274-275.
Wilson, Jamia. Young, Gifted and Black. London: Quarto Publishing, 2018. Print.

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