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Toni Morrison was born in 1931, as Chloe Anthony Wofford, in Lorain, Ohio as the second of four children to working-class parents. As a child Morrison read extensively, her favorite authors were Jane Austen and Leo Tolstoy. In 1949, at the age of 18, Morrison entered the Howard University where in 1953 she received a Bachelor's Degree in English and then further a Master's Degree in English in 1955 from Cornell University. After her graduation, Morrison went to work as an English instructor at Texas Southern University. In 1957, she returned to Howard University to teach English where she became a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. The following year, in 1958 she married a Jamaican architect who also worked at Howard, Harold Morrison. Before they divorced in 1964, they had two children, boys Harold and Slade. After the divorce, she moved to Syracuse, New York where she then became a textbook editor. And a year and a half later she became an editor at the Random House Publishing headquarters in New York City. Since then she has retired from working at universities and is now a member of the editorial board of The Nation magazine. Toni Morrison has written ten novels, two children's books with her son Slade before his death in 2010, seven non-fiction books, and two plays. Morrison was the eighth woman, and first black woman, to win the Nobel Prize for literature. Her novel Beloved won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. In 1996 she received a Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. In 2000 she was awarded the National Humanities Medal. In 2001 Morrison was named one of "The 30 Most Powerful Women in America" by Ladies' Home Journal as well as was given a National Arts and Humanities Award by President Bill Clinton in Washington, D.C. She is currently 81 years old and is a member of the editorial board for The Nation magazine.
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